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W. of Patna, in which he communicated to me that, dur- 

 ing the last rainy season, he believed himself near death. He 

 feels better now, but thinks that his days are num- 

 bered.' 



"In another letter from Patna, dated July 15, 1778, and 

 written to Fr. Gregorio, O.D.C., the then Prefect of the Mission, 

 Fr. Charles, O.C., says among other things: 'Fr. Wendel has 

 had fever during five days. He had lost all consciousness. 

 Now he neither talks sensibly again, nor does he wander, as 

 he did before.' 1 



"'Another of them [of the ex- Jesuits], Fr. Tieffentaller, a 

 broken-down old man (vecchio cadente) , is at present in Agra, 

 where there is also a Church and a numerous Christian com- 

 munity. I have not neglected to recommend many times to the 

 watchful zeal of the Sacred Congregation the needs of the nu- 

 merous Christians scattered over so many lands, and to remind 

 them that they will soon have no Father left to minister to 

 them the consolations of Religion." *" 



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Wendel 



is known well enough. We are able to trace some of Fr. 

 Garret's later movements in Adrien Launay's Histoire des Mis- 

 sions de V Inde, Tome I, Paris, 1898. In a Memoir of Fr. Vernet 

 (May 13, 1777) he is mentioned as residing at Chandernagore 

 with Fr. Possevin (Vicar), Fr. Garofalo, and Bro. Broquet, who 

 teaches piloting (p. 61). In 1778, the Prefect Apostolic, Fr. 

 Sebastian de Nevers, O.C., urged the three ex- Jesuit Priests to 

 join the Foreign Missions of Paris. All three quitted Chanderna- 

 gore, leaving it to the care of the Capuchin Fathers. The little 

 ship that was bearing them to Pondichery was driven on to 

 the coast of Ceylon, whence they wrote (Dec. 20, 1778) to Mgr. 

 Bigot that they were at Trincomali. One of the three, Fr. 

 Possevin, was 7tf years old and infirm, " the other two could still 

 work, Deo juvante." Possevin preferred to remain at San 

 Thome; the other two arrived at Pondichery in April 1779 and 

 joined the Foreign Missions (pp. 75-78). Fr. Garret laboured 

 at first at Pondichery (1788. Cf. pp. 113, 160, 181). In 1807, 

 he was involved in difficulties at Karikal, owing to some 

 of his Christians wishing, in spite of the opposition of the 

 Hindus, to have a theatrical representation (pp. 189-90). He 

 died [at Pondichery ?] on December 2, 1817, aged 75 years and 

 some days. "His zeal, his union with God, all his virtues and 

 the care with which he had long prepared himself for death," 

 wrote Mgr. Hebert, "give us every reason to hope that his 

 death, though sudden, was not unprovided for " (p. 441). 



1 I understand 

 ever. 



He recovered, how- 



