John Surratt

[L Verge]

Sister Anna said that Johnny was not in the seminary in the sense that we now take that. During the 19th-century and probably earlier, the word seminary referred to a school for one gender only and did not mean full religious training for the priesthood. There could be all-girls seminaries also. Weichmann was at St. Charles for the religious preparation, however.

Since Surratt was not convicted of any crime, why wouldn't he be allowed the high mass? Perhaps the church was also making sure that he had the proper service which his mother was denied. Her re-interment at Mt. Olivet was graveside commital only, I believe. Neither the lady nor her corpse went inside a church after Good Friday.