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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12322 Post contents: Don't forget Father John Dubois who fled the Terror led by his former schoolmate and came to America where he landed in Havre de Grace MD, and then sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, where he arrived in August 1791. Bishop Carroll, who appointed him pastor in Norfolk and afterward in Richmond, Virginia, warmly received him. Father Dubois was taught English by Patrick Henry, and lived in the house of James Monroe, the future president. He also, by invitation, used the state capitol in Richmond, for some time, for religious services. He was next summoned by Archbishop Carroll to Frederick, Maryland, exercised the duties of pastor in western Maryland and Virginia, and was for a long time the only priest between Baltimore and St. Louis. In 1805 he began the building of a college and church at Mount St. Mary's, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Mount St Mary’s Seminary celebrates it’s founding in 1808. He also founded my parish in 1807. He welcomed St Elizabeth Ann Seton and gave his cabin for the use of the sisters until a home could be built for them. President of Mount St. Mary's until 1826, he was appointed 3rd bishop of New York where in this post ordained the future St. John Neumann. Sent at: 2008 11 23