Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . f St. Francis, Ladies of theSacred Heart, Sisters of St. Bene-dict, St. Dominic, and of St. Francis,were in charge of academies or chari-itable institutions. Bishop Spalding has co-opera-ted actively in the movement forCatholic colonization, and his owndiocese, as well as others further West, show the benefit resulting from theeffort to aid immigrants in taking up lands for their new homes where theycan enjoy the consolations of their religion. The project of a great Catholic university in the Uni
Progress of the Catholic church in America and the great Columbian Catholic Congress of 1893 .. . f St. Francis, Ladies of theSacred Heart, Sisters of St. Bene-dict, St. Dominic, and of St. Francis,were in charge of academies or chari-itable institutions. Bishop Spalding has co-opera-ted actively in the movement forCatholic colonization, and his owndiocese, as well as others further West, show the benefit resulting from theeffort to aid immigrants in taking up lands for their new homes where theycan enjoy the consolations of their religion. The project of a great Catholic university in the United States is also onefor which Bishop Spalding has labored assiduously, his project being encour-aged by the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, which adopted his plans in1S84, a noble-hearted young Catholic lady, Miss Caldwell, having given$300,000 to begin the great undertaking. Bishop Spalding has also devotedhimself, as president of the committee in charge, to the organization and fur-therance of the Catholic educational exhibit to be made at the Worlds Fairduring this Columbian RT. REV. J. L, SPALDING BISHOP OF PEORIA. ©tapto <XI^C. THE GREAT NORTHWEST. Fort St. Joseph at Detroit.—Burning of the First Church.—Murder of theFirst Pastor.—Father Richard, M. C.—The Original Western Printer.—Stricken Down by Cholera.—A Convert Who Apostatized.—The Bishopsof Detroit.—Satisfactory Progress of Religion.—Milwaukee Becomes aSee.—Bishop Casper Borgess.—The Bleak Upper Peninsula.—The Indefat-igable Baraga.—Opening of the Copper Mines.—Labors of Bishop Henni.—Milwaukee is Made the See of an Archbishop.—How the Faith Grewin Iowa.—Bishops Loras and Hennessy.—A Silver Jubilee.—The Cross inMinnesota.—Bishop Cretins Toils.—Bishop Grace and Progress.—Careerof John Ireland.—A Great Archbishop. ^ASSING now into the great region of the Northwest, we find thatin 1688, Fort St. Joseph, at Detroit, formed the nucleus of thepost establish
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