There are twelve churches for Indians in this diocese, and sixteen Indian
Schools with 930 pupils enrolled. The Ursulines have a mother-house
located in the diocese as well as a novitiate. They devote themselves
entirely to the education of the Indians of the different missions.
“I will be called upon to pay for the debt of the Indian school and
novitiate and mother-house of the Ursulines” writes Bishop Brondel.
“These nuns were living for seven years in small log cabins and now
they have a decent building considerably in debt. Two or three thousand
dollars would help considerably.”