Wednesday, July 16, 2008

St. Mary's College: The Jesuit Years 1827-1967

St. Mary's is currently manned by the Society of St. Puis X . "Pray for unification"

The story of St. Mary's has many beginnings. One strand reaches back to the first heroic Jesuit missionaries of North America. In 1641, when St. Isaac Jogues and Fr. Charles Raymbaut penetrated as far west as Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, they met representatives of the Potawatomi tribe, those children of the forest who seem to have been specially marked by God to be receptive to the Faith. Of Algonquian stock, they were related to the Ottowa and Ojibway (or Chippewa).

Fr. Jacques Marquette also made early acquaintance with the Potawatomi in the course of his explorations and historic voyage down the great Mississippi in 1673.

In 1669, near the head of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Fr. Claude Allouez founded the Mission of St. Francis Xavier for the Potawatomi and neighboring Sauk, Foxes and Winnebago. Probably it was he who founded the most important old mission center for the Potawatomi on the St. Joseph River near the Indiana-Michigan line. As early as 1712 the mission was in a thriving state, and for long decades the Jesuits labored there for the spiritual good of the Potawatomi.
A Timeline of the History of Our Campus - Introduction
Prologue: Early Threads in the History of St. Mary's

Time Line: 1827 - 1847

Time Line: 1848 - 1869

Time Line: 1869 - 1931
Time Line: 1931 - 1967
Time Line: 1967 - 1978
Pioneer Sisters of St. Mary's Mission
Pioneer Priests and Brothers of St. Mary's Mission
Bishop John Baptist Miége
Tom Playfair's School
St. Mary's and the War
Memoirs of an Alumnus

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