Origine et progrès de la mission du Kentucky, Etats-Unis d'Amerique ; par un Temoin Oculaire

by Stephen Theodore Badin, attributed

$750 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Second edition, appearing the same year as the first, of this eye-witness account of missionary work in the American south. In 1793, Stephen Theodore Badin, a native of Orleans, became the first priest ordained in the United States by the Catholic church. A short while later he was appointed a...... More

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