St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-31
FOR FIFTY YEARS.
History Of the Catholic Church
From 1874 to the Pres
COMPILED BY A CHURCHMAN
Who Has Access to the Rec
0pds and Writings Of the
Clergy.
MGR. RAVOUX'S MEMOIRS
And Early Church Movements
in the Wild North
west.
MGR. RAVOUX'S MEMOIRS

Note-In offering this work to the
public it is due to myself, as well as to
others, that 1 shall state that the early
historical and biographical portion is
copied from the writings of the Most
Rev. Archbishop Ireland, Rt. Rev. Mgr.
A. RayouX, V. G., Lucian Galtier and
my deceased non-Catholic friends, J.
Fletcher Williams, in his History of st.
Paul, Mimi, published by the Mime
sofa State Historical society in 1876,
and Maj. T. NJ. Newson, in his pen
Pictures" published in 1886. The other
portions are furnished me by reverend
clergy of the city, members of the diff
fercnt orders and officers of institu-
tons and societies.
These are the vouchers for the verify
of the work. ]. J. WILLIAMS.
Father RavouX is a marked charac-
ter upon the streets, or anywhere else.
His dress indicates his calling, with
kind, benevolent face, broad forehead
and slender body, he moves along with
the aid of his walking stick, with all
the agility of a man Of forty. He is
strong orthodox upholder of the Cath
Ollie church, and believes in the positive
punishment of all volators of the law
of God; or at least, what he honestly
thinks to be the law of God. Several
years ago he was engaged in arranG-
ing the drapery in the church and had
his mouth full of pins, when he fell
and some of these pins passed down
into his windpipe and some stuck in
his throat and he has suffered more or
less from this accident ever since. 1t
has affected his preaching somewhat,
but still he has performed great labors
in the field and in the church, and is yet
a grand, venerable specimen of an old
time Catholic priest. My religion is
broad enough to accept good from any
church, no matter what it's denomina-
ton may be,and as the Catholic church
early moulded the morals of the young
st. Paul,s it is a source of great pleas
ure to record the meritorious claims it
has upon the public sympathy. At
least the earliest religious teachers and
the earliest pioneers were of the Cath
Ole church, and history demands moth
ing less than this recognition"
In Rt. Rev. Mgr. RavouX's memoirs
we read, Father A. Ravoux was born
A. .. 1915, Jan. II, at Langeac, in Au-
Vcrgne, France, about twenty miles
from Puy, where he spent three years
in the Petit seminaire and four years
in the Grand seminaire. Ri. Rev. M.
Loras. previously pastor of the Cathad-
raj Church of Mobile, Ala, having
been ccnsecrated, in 1887, bishop of Du-
buQue, To-, before visiting his diocese,
went to France in order to have a few
missionaries and some pecuniary means
for his poor and new diocese.
EARLY in the spring of 1888 he visited
the Grand Seminaire of Puy, and de-
livered before the seminarians an ur-
gent invitation in order to induce some
of them to accompany him to America
Deeply moved by the discourse and
tears of the good bishop of Dubuque,
whom he had never seen or heard of
before, PAbbe A. RavouX, then a sub
deacon, offered himself for the mis-
sions of his diocese. In September,
1888, they left France for the United