Posted on 09/02/2015 4:54:50 PM PDT by TradicalRC
How few of us are still aware of Pere de Smet’s heroic missionary work among Native Americans. May God bless you and yours!
We went to visit his grave in St. Louis and we could not find it. The keeper at the St. Louis cemetery did not know who he was.
We found out later that the ones who directed the removal of his remains and those of other Jesuit missionaries at Florissant had clumsily done it with backhoes in 2003. It is not known what percentage of remains were actually moved.
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