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...made a 40-day trip to St. Louis where the local Bishop welcomed her to his "palace," a barn, and his "cathedral," a shanty in which the prelate doubled as priest and choir. Mother Duchesne founded her first convent at St. Charles, Mo., in 1821, built schools, evangelized the Potawatomi Indians. In all she founded six houses before she died in 1852 in St. Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beatified Madame | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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