The outcry at this was so great from both the clergy and laity of the diocese, however, that he was appointed to that post again on March 17, 1833. The Bardstown Diocese was later transferred to Louisville, Kentucky on February 13, 1841, becoming the Diocese of Louisville. During a cholera outbreak in 1833, Flaget's care for the afflicted of all classes and creeds elicited general admiration from the public. In 1834 he received a new coadjutor bishop in the person of Guy Ignatius Chabrat, S.S., whom Flaget himself had recruited from a Sulpician seminary in France in 1811 and then ordained. The following year, Flaget left for Europe, where he stayed until 1839. By the time of his departure, he had erected four colleges, a large female orphanage and infirmary, eleven academies for girls, and had introduced three congregations of Religious Sisters and four religious Orders of men. After his return, he helped the Trappists to establish their first successful monastery in the nation in his diocese. Chabret resigned as Coadjutor in 1847, and Flaget himself became confined to his bed for the last years of his life. He died February 11, 1850, and was buried two days later, after a Requiem Mass celebrated by his new Coadjutor Bishop, Martin John Spalding, with the sermon given by Bishop Purcell. He was buried in the undercroft of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville, Kentucky. Legacy Several institutions have been named for Benedict Joseph Flaget: Bishop Flaget School – Chillicothe, Ohio Flaget Memorial Hospital – Bardstown, Kentucky Flaget Elementary School – Vincennes, Indiana Flaget Center (Senior Center) – Louisville, Kentucky Flaget Community Center – Louisville, Kentucky Knights of Columbus, Flaget Council – Chillicothe, Ohio Bishop Flaget High School – Louisville, Kentucky (closed in 1974) References Cathedrals in the Wilderness, J. Herman Schauinger, The Bruce Publishing Company (1952). External links Flaget Memorial Hospital Flaget Elementary School The French Sulpicians "Flaget, Bishop Benedict Joseph", Society of St. Sulpice, Province of the United States 1763 births 1850 deaths People from Puy-de-Dôme 18th-century French Roman Catholic priests French emigrants to the United States Georgetown University faculty Sulpician bishops 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville Burials in Kentucky Religious leaders from Kentucky 18th-century American clergy