Four Catholic Pioneers in Missouri: Lamarque, Kenrick, Fox, and Hogan

This is a book about four Roman Catholic pioneers--explorers and developers--whose lives crossed each other''s paths in Old Mines, Missouri, in the middle of the 1800s. Two of them were priests, and one of them was a bishop, then an archbishop. One was a laywoman, who was very generous with her riches. Three of them were not only of Irish descent but came from Ireland. The laywoman was French, and...