The ten Jesuit missions of New York State do not need to plead that they amounted to something. They have only to point to Catherine. What have all our sky-scraping busy cities ever produced like to her? … The mission of the Immaculate Conception at Kaskaskia lasted for ninety years, ten times longer than the Jesuit missions among the Iroquois, yet where was a Catherine Tekakwitha?— Daniel Sargent, Our Land and Our Lady, NY, 1940, pp. 107, 112–113.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
The French Bubble
