St. Mary's Mission (Kansas)

Potawatomi girls at St. Mary's Mission, Kansas, ca. 1867

The St. Mary's Mission was a Jesuit mission founded in 1847 along the Oregon Trail. The city of St. Marys, Kansas was established around the mission. During the 19th and 20th centuries Native American children were often forced to attend Mission schools like St. Mary's. Potawatomi children were taken from their families in the 1860s and sent to St. Mary's Mission where they were left in the care of White Americans.

In popular culture

St. Mary's Mission, one of the stops in the game, Oregon Trail II

External links

History of The City of St. Marys

Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas

Ordinaries	Vicars John Baptiste Miège Louis Mary Fink Bishops Louis Mary Fink Thomas Francis Lillis John Chamberlain Ward Francis Johannes Paul Clarence Schulte George Joseph Donnelly Edward Joseph Hunkeler Archbishops Edward Joseph Hunkeler Ignatius Jerome Strecker James Patrick Keleher Joseph Fred Naumann

Auxiliary Bishop	Marion Francis Forst

Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of Saint Peter Parishes St. Patrick's Church, Atchison St. Benedict's Church, Bendena St. Mary's Church, Purcell Church of the Assumption, Topeka St. Joseph's Church, Topeka Former St. Bridget Church, Axtell St. Mary's Mission, St. Marys

Education	Higher Education Benedictine College Donnelly College St. Mary's College, St. Marys University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth High Schools Bishop Miege High School, Roeland Park Bishop Ward High School, Kansas City Hayden High School, Topeka Immaculata High School, Leavenworth Maur Hill – Mount Academy, Atchison St. James Academy, Lenexa St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park

Priests	John Francis Cunningham

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Coordinates: 39°11′30″N 96°03′44″W / 39.19167°N 96.06222°W / 39.19167; -96.06222 (St. Mary’s Mission)

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