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the United States. Years previously he had advised the
young woman, who eventually became the Superior
General of the Congregation: "Do not enter Carmel. Go
to Notre Dame de Namur, and then you will be sent to
teach Indians in America."
Brother Ryken arrived in Boston fired with en-
thusiasm. When he introduced himself ar St. Mary's
rectory, he learned that the Father Rector was in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, forty miles to the south, and that
he would be absent for several days. Brother Ryken left
Boston on the first available train. He found Father
McElroy, who seemed very interested in what this per-
fect stranger had to say.
Perhaps Brother Ryken wru; too optimistic or perhaps
he did not thoroughly appreciate the bigoted opposition
that had to be faced in Boston, but when he took leave
of Father McElroy, then seventy-three years old, he was
convinced that he had been successful and that come
August, 1855, the Xaverian community in Louisville,
Kentucky, would transfer its activities to Boston.
On his return to Boston that same day, Brother Ryken
must have visited the rectory of Holy Trinity Church on
Shawmut Avenue in the West End. Here were Father
Ernst A. Reiter and Father George A. Hellervach, the
two Jesuits who had been aboard the "Franklin'l when
she ran aground. Knowing that they were to sail on this
vessel may have been the reason for Brother Ryken's
rying to secure accommodations for his party of seven.