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PIONEERING IN LOUISVILLE I51
request to Bishop Spalding who said, "No." And "No"
it was. They had to suffer it out on the third floor under
a flat roof in August and for the months to come.
Bishop Spalding probably feared turning these foreigners
loose-
It had been the original intention to have the Brothers
teach at the Cathedral School and live in the two-srory
brick house directly in front of it on Fourth Street be-
tween Chestnut Street and Broadway. Since the
Jesuits
remained on and lived in this house, the Bishop arranged
to make use of the Brothers in two other schools: St.
Patrick's and the Immaculate Conception. St. Patrick's
had just been opened. The Vicar General of the diocese,
Rev. Charles Boeswald, had organized the Immaculate
Conception parish in 1847 to supplement the work being
done among the German Catholics at St. Boniface since
r836.
The assistant to Father Boeswald was Rev. Francis
Van Deutekom, one of the volunteers who in 1853 had
responded to the appeal of Bishop Spalding. He had
been ordained in Louisville on Assumption Day in 1853.
He was a native of s'Hertogenbosch (Bois le Duc), Hol-
land, and so a fellow countryman of Brother Ryken and
four of the Brothers: Paul and Ignatius from.Gemert,
Vincent from Rotterdam and Peter Alcantara from
Waalwyk, only a few miles from s'Hertogenbosch.
Elshout, the Founder's birthplace, practically adjoins
Waalwyk.
On Monday, August twenty-first, Brother Francis Don-
dorf, a native of Aix-la-Chapelle, and Brother peter
reported for duty at the Immaculate Conception School
on Eighth Street. Brother Vincent and Brother Ignatius
took over St. Patrick's where the instruction wai to be
in English. Brother Ignatius had taught in England for
six years; Brother Vincent had acquired on his own a