sentences:  Still too weak to ride a horse, Father Petit traveled east in an open wagon in the rain and over bad roads to reach the Jesuit seminary, which became Saint Louis University, at St. Louis, Missouri, on January 15, 1839.He arrived exhausted from his strenuous journey and weakened by successive attacks of fever, with many running sores on his body.Father Petit hoped to recover at St. Louis and return to Indiana, but his condition worsened on February 6.