other to ask each other's forgiveness, in so much sorrow that it was
easy to see that these changes were the results of grace and of the
mercy of God rather than of His justice."

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _The Old Régime in Canada_, p. 110.

[2] Joseph Séré de la Colombière, vicar-general and archdeacon of
Quebec, pronounced Mgr. de Laval's funeral oration.




CHAPTER IV

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SEMINARY


No sooner had he returned, than the Bishop of Petræa devoted all the
strength of his intellect to the execution of a plan which he had long
meditated, namely, the foundation of a seminary. In order to explain
what he understood by this word we cannot do better than to quote his
own ordinance relating to this matter: "There shall be educated and
trained such young clerics as may appear fit for the service of God, and
they shall be taught for this purpose the proper manner of administering
the sacraments, the methods of apostolic catechism and preaching, moral
theology, the ceremonies of the Church, the Gregorian chant, and other
things belonging to the duties of a good ecclesiastic; and besides, in
order that there may be formed in the said seminary and among its clergy