Everywhere shrines were to be seen by the roadsides.

The country is not so level as that west of the Meuse, and the Redemptorist students often made excursions among the hills, our young Americans admiring the shepherds guarding their flocks, with their crooks and their dogs.
The house of studies was an old Capuchin monastery, large and plain and very interesting.

The friars had buried their dead under the ground floor, which enabled the students to dig up an abundant supply of skulls as _memento moris_ till the rector forbade it.

The students were more numerous at Wittem than the novices had been at St.Trond.
They were mostly Dutchmen, with a sprinkling of Belgians and a few Germans; but the language of the house was French or Latin.

We have not been able to make quite sure of the name of the Rector; possibly it was Father Heilig, who certainly was there at this time, either in charge of the house or as one of the professors.