A History of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
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Peter. The title of the chapel is preserved in the name of the capital city. There were, moreover, two other small settlements, one 4l8 THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. [Chap. Xxv. at St. Anthony's Falls, the nucleus of Minneapolis, and the other on the St. Croix River where now stands Still- water. The Rev. Augustine Ravoux, residing by turns in St. Peter and St. Paul, was the only priest in the whole Territory when it was erected into a diocese. Before the bishop arrived from France, Father Ravoux made p...ur- chases of real estate in the young city — a village, rather — of St. Paul that have been the source of the material pros- perity of the diocese, and still constitute to-day an endow- ment of no mean proportions. The new diocese had ten priests and seven churches when the bishop proceeded to the Plenary Council of Baltimore. At the request of the Seventh Provincial Council of Baltimore the territory lying between the western bound- ary of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota and the eastern flank of the Rockies was formed into the vicari- ate apostolic of the Indian Territory.
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