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Contents of this path:

  1. Introduction
  2. Timeline
  3. Brother Wendelin Meyer, SVD arrives in America
  4. The cornerstone is laid for St. Joseph's Technical School in Shermerville, Illinois
  5. The Southern missions begin
  6. St. Mary’s Mission House is founded in Techny, Illinois
  7. Sacred Heart Mission House is founded in Girard, Pennsylvania
  8. Black parish work in the Rust Belt begins
  9. The first American-born SVD missionaries are ordained in China
  10. St. Augustine’s Seminary in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi formally opens
  11. St. Michael's Mission House in Conesus, New York is dedicated
  12. Classes begin at Divine Word Seminary in Perrsyburg, Ohio
  13. Missionary work in Appalachia begins