Sketches of the early Catholic missions of Kentucky
Subtitle: from their commencement in 1787, to the Jubilee of 1826-7, embracing a summary of the early history of the state, the adventures of the first Catholic emigrants, biographical notices of the early missionaries, the early history of the principal Protestant sects in Kentucky, with some account of the establishment of the Episcopal See at Bardstown, of the various religious societies, and of the general state of the Catholic religion in Kentucky
By: compiled from authentic sources, with the assistance of the Very Rev. Stephen Theodore Badin, by M.J. Spalding.
Contributors: Badin, Stephen T. 1768-1853.
Publisher: B.J. Webb & Brother; J. Murphy
Published: 1844
Place of publication: Louisville; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Kentucky. -- History; Catholic Church -- Kentucky. -- Clergy -- Biography; Catholics -- Kentucky; Kentucky -- Church history
Notes: Preface dated (p. ix): Bardstown, Kentucky, Feast of Corpus Christi, 1844.

Sabin 88911A

Preface dated 1844.

In manuscript on front free endpaper: S. Buteux.