The Irish standard., 1915-09-01

ed the same, although the territory OF
Minnesota had become state, May
II, 1858, and had reduced it's proper
tions to it's present size. On February
II, 1875, q new ecclesias stical jurisdic
ton was established in northern Min
nesota under the name of Vicariate
Apostolic of Northern Minnesota,
which comprised all the northern part
of the state, or what is now in the
dioceses of St. Cloud, Duluth and
Crookston. On August II, 1879, an
other jurisdiction, with the name of
Vicariate Apostolic of Dakota, was in
stituted, which took in all the territory
lying to the west of the present state
line; and thus the area of the diocese
was reduced to the southern part of
Minnesota, or what is now included in
the archdiocese of St. Paul and in the
diocese of Winona. In 1875 Bishop
Grace received a coadjutor in the
person of the Reverend John Ireland,
then rector of the cathedral of St.
Paul.
The Catholic population grew to
large proportions during the Is years
of Bishop Grace's rule. When Bishop
Cretin died in 1857, there were about
$4,000 Catholics in the vast territory
covered by the diocese of St. Paul;
when Bishop Grace resigned in 1884,
the number had reached about 10000,
and this although the territory had
been reduced to a great deal less than
half of its former size. Racially con-
sidered the Catholics, at the time
that Bishop Grace came to St. Paul,
consisted of Indian and half-breed
converts, of French Canadian, Irish
and German immigrants; during his
episcopate were added to them Cath
olics from Bohemia and the various
Polish countries in Europe The first
parishes or missions for Bohemian
Catholics, as indicated by the Catholic
Almanac of 1864, were organized in
New Prague and St.. Scholastica or
Heidelberg. Polish Catholics came
shortly afterwards, and they were Or
ganized into parish in St. Paul; in
1871 they formed, together with the
Bohemian Catholics of the city, the
parish of St. Stanislaus. At the time
of the bishops resignation, in 1884, the
Bohemian Catholics had distinct par
ishes or missions in St. Paul, New
Prague, Heidelberg, Montgomery and
Veseli; the Polish Catholics had par
ishes in St. Paul, Wilno, Silver Lake,
New Posen and Winona. If we
take the Catholic Directory of
1885, the year in which the Irish
Standard was founded, which gives
the figures for the year 1884, the
last of Bishop Grace's episcopate, we
find that the Catholics of the diocese
were organized into parishes or mis-
sions in the following cities, towns or
settlements arranged according to
counties-Ramsey county: The city of
St. Paul. with II parishes, Little Can
ada, White Bear, Mounds View. Hen
nepin county: The city of Minneapo-
lis with eight parishes, Dayton, Osseo,
Medina, Medicine Lake, Corcoran,
Maple Plain, St. Boniface, Cahilltown,
Maple Grove, Kich6eld, Crystal Lake.
Anoka county: Anoka, Centreville,
Cedar Greek. Big Stone county:
Graceville, Beardsley, Ortonville.
Blue Earth county: Mankato with
two parishes, Winnebago Agency,
Good Thunder, Mapleton, Minnesota
Lake, Crystal Lake. Brown county:
New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Springfield,
Leavenworth. Carver county: Chas-
ka, Waconia, Benton, Assumption,
Watertown, Carver, Chanhassan,
Laketown, Norwood. Chippewa coun-
ty: Montevideo, Grace. Cottonwood
county: Mountain Lake, Window.
Dakota county: Hastings with two
parishes, Mendoza, Byrnesville, New
Trier, Rosemount, Invergrove, Bell
wood, Fairfield, Pennington, Vermil-
lion with two parishes, Douglas
Dodge county: Claremont, Kasson.
Faribault county: Easton, Blue Earth
City, Wells. Fillmore county: Chat
field, Fountain, Lanesboro, Preston,
Carimonia, Rushford, Spring Valley,
Freeborn county: Albert Lea, Newry,
Bath, Twin Lake, Alden. Goodhue
county: Red Wing, Bell Creek, Bel