. A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, , Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records. Sioux, but he never despaired, for
. A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, , Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records. Sioux, but he never despaired, for where sinabounded the grace of God abounded the more. On the 25th of March, 1898, he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary ofhis ordination to the holy priesthood at Chicago, and just two yearslater he passed to his eternal reward in the eighty-second year of liis ended the days of the last representative of the noble housesof Guerra and Ponziglione. All tlie wealth, the honors, the social dis-tinction, and everything that the heart of man craves, were but thefleeting shadow in his eyes. In preference to the life of an Italiannobleman he chose the luimble, yet nobler life, of a Jesuit missionaryamong the American Indians. His work for the moral and religious wel-fare of this country, and especially for the State of Kansas, is deservingof a prominent place in the pages of American history. He was a greatmissionary, a nobleman in tlie Chureli of Christ, and his life-work is a truetype of what Christ, thiough His Chnrcli, has done for THE RIGHT REV. JOHN BAPTIST MIEGE, 43 PJGHT REVEREND JOHN BAPTIST MTEGE, S. J.,First Bishop of Kansas. Written for the Kansas State Historical Society by James A. McGonigle, of Leavenworth. JOHN BAPTIST MIEGE was born in 1815, the youngest son of awealthy and pious family of the parish of Chevron in upper Savoy. Atan early age he was committed to the care of his brotlier, the director ofthe episcopal seminary of Montiers. At t
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