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of the schools that had to survive on what they took in
for tuition.
The hard-pressed Brother Ryken could nor look for
help to the daughter-houses in Hamont, Manchester,
or louisvillg. Th" prospects that had been so bright
at Hamont had gone aglimmering. Circumstances hlad
forced the Xaverians to withdriw after only fifteen
months, and there were those who blamed the Founder
for the fiasco. The situation was bad in Belgium but
it was worse in England. Rumor was bandiid about
that time that the Bank of England might go bankrupt.
The Brothers in Manchester irruggled on. They hid
nothing.
Frightful things had been happening in America.
Fortunately the European newspapers did not carry the
gruesome story in detail, but when Brother paul wrote
to Bruges the community found it hard to believe that
America was a civilized country.
- On Election Day in Louisville, August fifth, a neigh-
bor had come to the Brothers' quaiters on the third
floor above St. Patrick's Church and explained that the
men milling about in the street below were Knownoth-
ings bent on setring fire to the building. Gathering what
they carry inconspicuously, particularly the-sacred
-could
vessels, the Brothers paired ofi and slipped out the back
way. Brother Paul had told them, ,,GCt out of the city
and stay outside the city limits until nightfall."
Leaving their few belongings with the caretaker at
St. John's cemetery, who was instructed to bury the
sacred vessels, the refugees continued their flight. That
night they rerurned to the city and found. shilter with
friends. In the morning they stole ofi again. They had
,,Bioody
heard the stories of the killings on Election Day,
As a the Knownothings
]\{o-nday.l' _victory-celebration
had made a bonfire of several houses where the hatJd