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166 BLOODY MONDAY
Catholics were known to live and then shot the occu-
pants as they rushed out to supposed safety. No one
knew how many had been murdered, but the estimated
number was somewhere between twenty-five and one
hundred.
The victorious Knownothings absolved themselves of
all blame. The Louisville "Journal" in its issue of
Tuesday, August sixth, placed the blame on the foreign
residents who had been incited by their priests.
On the morning of August eighth Brother Paul got
word to his men that it was safe to return to their quar-
ters. The community re-assembled and in the course of
a few hours the regular observance was in force. The
Brothers were going about their religious exercises as if
nothing had happened.
On Monday, August, nineteenth, two weeks to the day
after the massacre of the Catholics, the Brothers were at
their posts to rvelcome the boys at St. Patrick's and at
the Immaculate Conception Schools. Summer vacation
ended on the Monday after the Feast of the Assumption
of Our Lady.
When the Xaverians in Bruges had digested Brother
Paul's letter, they were alarmed for the safety of their
Brothers in that wild America. They could not under-
stand how Brother Paul could be so unconcerned and so
eager to remain in that dangerous outpo$t. It was hard
to believe that he liked the boys in Louisville that much.
The academic year, 1855-1856, in the Xaverian little
world was one of hoped-for survival. Times were bad;
they simply had to improve.
In the summer of 1856, during his annual visitation
of the community in Manchester, England, Brother
Ryken yielded to the pleas of Father Benoit and half-
way promised to provide two Brothers for St.
John's
School in the Salford Cathedral Parish. His promise