. 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. f active workers and have branch ho
. 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. f active workers and have branch houses in manystates west of the Mississippi, and far into the Rocky Mountains. Theyare able teachers, efficient nurses, and splendid charity workers in everyfield of human misery. These three Orders were pioneers in the west. In the meantime the ranks of the Secular Clergy were being aug-mented. Father Theodore Heimann was the first to reside in Kansas. The end of 1858 saw Father Schacht wending his way through MiamiCounty. Father Sebastian Favre came from France in 1862 and Father An-thony Kuhls was ordained by Bishop Miege in 1863. Two years afterwardsJohn F. Cunningham and Francis J. Wattron were raised to the holy priest-hood at Leavenworth by the same bishop and were at once sent forth onhorseback to comb the prairies and fish for the living when huntingfailed. Fort Scott was the destination of tlie former and Paola of thelatter. Father Cunningham afterwards became pastor of Lawrence,Topeka and Leavenworth successively. He became Vicar General of. RT. REV. INNOCENT WOLF. O. FOUNDATIONS LAID 53 the diocese under Rt. Rev. L. M. Fink, 0. S. B., and, finally, died on the23d of June, 1919, as the revei-ed and respected Bishop of Concordia. The only reniainino- figure of thoseearly days is Right Reverend , laow in retirement. FatherKuhls Mas ordained by Bishop Miegeand appointed pastor of St. JoseplisChurch, Leavenworth. Succeeding Fa-tlier Fish, he became the pastor of
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