The conforming and nonconforming priests were disputing the altars.

A letter from the minister of the interior came to authorise the nonjuring priests to celebrate the holy sacrifice in the churches where they had previously done duty.

Obedient to the law, the constitutional priests opened to them their chapels, supplied them with the ornaments necessary for divine worship; but the multitude, faithful to their ancient pastors, threatened and insulted the new clergy.

Bloody struggles took place between the two creeds on the very threshold of God's house.

On Friday, November the 4th, the former _cure_ of the parish of Saint Jean, at Caen, came to perform the mass.