ived the manner of giving
missions handed down from St. Alphonsus, and they have transmitted
the tradition to their spiritual children in all its integrity.

Nearly two years passed of hard missionary campaigning under Father
Bernard, when he was recalled to Europe, and Father Alexander
Cvitcovicz took his place. His last name was seldom used, for the
same evident reason as in his predecessor's case. Father Alexander
was a Magyar, past the meridian of life, long accustomed to missions
in Europe, learned, devout, kindly, and of a zeal which seemed to
aspire at utter self-annihilation in the service of sinners. '"It was
not unusual for Father Alexander," says Father Hewit in his memoir of
Father Baker, "to sit in his confessional for ten days in succession
for fifteen or sixteen hours each day. He instructed the little
children who were preparing for the sacraments, but never preached
any of the great sermons. In his government of the fathers who were
under him he was gentleness, consideration, and indulgence itself. In
his own life and example he presented a pattern of the most perfect
religious virtue, in its most attractive form, without constraint,
austerity, or moroseness, and yet without relaxation from the most
ascetic principles. He was a most thoroughly accomplished and learned
man in many branches of secular and sacred science and in the fine
arts; and in the German language, which was as familiar to him as his
native language, he was among the best preachers of his order. . . .
We went through several long and hard missionary campaigns under his
direction, until at last we left him, in the year 1854, in the
convent at New Orleans, worn out with labor, to exchange his arduous
missionary work for the lighter duties of the parish."

Father Walworth now became superior, and the missions went on in the
same spirit and with the same success as before. In the record of the
one given at the church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Brooklyn, we
find the following entry: "Missionaries, Fathers Walworth, Hecker,
Hewit, and George Deshon (late lieu-tenant Ordnance, U. S. A., a
convert from the Episcopal Church. This was his first mission)."
Father Deshon had been ordained not long before, and soon began to
share the instructions with Father Hecker. This was in February,
1856, and in November of the same year, at St. Patrick's Mission,
Washington, D. C., they were joined by Father Francis A. Baker,
ordained in the preceding S