History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . urch or house or later for the con- used in its entirety. On the 5th of No-vember 1882 Bishop Vertin re-dedicatedit in honor of St. Joseph, S. B. M. V.—the first patron having been lost sight of youth was not stress was laid on teaching theoff-spring of French parents their mater-nal language. Madame (Adeline Gar-eau) Pierre Pi
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . urch or house or later for the con- used in its entirety. On the 5th of No-vember 1882 Bishop Vertin re-dedicatedit in honor of St. Joseph, S. B. M. V.—the first patron having been lost sight of youth was not stress was laid on teaching theoff-spring of French parents their mater-nal language. Madame (Adeline Gar-eau) Pierre Pichette opened a class withseventy pupils in 1881 about where thenew Holy Rosary church stands. Thefollowing year the attendance increased 274 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF to one hundred and thirty-five pupils andnew quarters for their accommodationwere located on the corner of Calumet andTorch streets. In i8S6 the stately schoolwas finished and the Sisters of the HolyCross from Notre Dame, Indiana, underMother Euphrasine, took charge of theschool. They taught for three years andgave up the institution in 1889. Five layteachers took their place. In 1893 theSisters of Jesus and Mary ([Montreal,P. O.) accepted the school but held it. THE sisters house (FRENCH) IN MENOMINEE only two years, when it was again, for oneyear, conducted by lay teachers, who, inthe fall of 1896 were succeeded by thepresent teaching community of the Sistersof St. Joseph (Concordia, Kansas). Thefirst band, under Sister Mary Anne, wereSisters: Flavian, Justina, Edward, Mar-tha, Loretta, Evarista, Anastasia, andGermaine. The year after Sisters Marce-lina de Margaret and in 1888 Sister Mad-eline were added to the teaching 1889 Sister Clara became superior but was succeeded in the fall of 1903 by Sis-ter Ambrosia. Father Menard severed his connectionwith the parish June 11, 1895. Duringhis administration he witnessed a phenom-enal growth of the congregation, not onlyamong the French but German and Irish
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