60                 HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

tween Father Schneider and some of the people was settled by the Jesuits who succeeded in getting the title of the church lands vested in the Bishop.  A joint deed from Lucas Zettel, Jacob Birkle, and Lorentz Goetz, covering five acres on both sides of the road was made in 1848 to the Episcopal Corporation of Toronto for £25.  Charles Zuber conveyed another three-acre plot to Bishop De Charbonnel, August 28th, 1851, for £62 10s.  The first acre on which the old log school and rectory stood is said to have been donated by Mr. C. Goetz and remained in the possession of the school board until the two-storey brick school was erected on a part of the church lands then deeded to the school board.
    The Jesuits also moved the cemetery from the west side of the road to the opposite side beside the church.
    They lived in the house that had cost Father Schneider so much trouble during his administration.  When the Jesuits came and occupied it, its roof and sides were so bad that one night during a heavy thunderstorm Father Holzer was nearly drowned.  He had to bale water for hours before he was safe again.  The next spring he had the log house weather-boarded and a good roof put on so that, according to him, it was a rather comfortable, though not a very sightly habitation.  They kept a horse and a cow.
    It was a great misfortune for the whole district served by the Jesuits that they were obliged to relinquish everything except Guelph.  Some of the Jesuits here had come as exiles from Austria and Switzerland.  When order had been restored there some were recalled, others were sent to the States and some were broken in health and had to give up the hard missionary life.  Father Matoga, a Pole, who had been most active as missionary northward from Guelph, became sick on a missionary trip north, and died eight days after reaching Guelph, it seems of diphtheria.  Father Ritter left the Order.
    (Note.-For a list of the Jesuits laboring in this district, see Book III., giving their origin, time and place of death.)
    Father Holzer had his last baptism in New Germany on January, 1852, his first in Guelph was January 31st, 1852.  It seems that they served Guelph for a time from New Germany after Father Cullen's departure from that place, and New Germany from Guelph till May, of 1852.