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Rev. Charles RICKAERT, pastor of St Peter's
Catholic Church, Mt. Clemens was born in Belgium August 15
1820; was educated in tine College of Flanders; was ordained priest of
the Catholic Church, et Ghent, Belgium, in 1847. Father R. served ten years in
the ministry of the church in Belgium In 1857, he went to Sauvain Belgium, to
help in establishing the American Seminary there, and, in
1858, left for the United States, arriving here in April of that Year; he was
appointed priest of the church at Hillsdale, Mich. where to remained for
a term of thirteen years: in April 1871, to was appointed pastor of the St
Peter's, at Mt Clemens: his administration of the parish has been marked watt
the highest results: the denominational system of education has grown to some
importance under his direction, church property has been improved, the
congregation has advanced in knowledge and prosperity. The new church was
projected by him and. under his superintendence, will he carried through to
completion.
Source : (collective work) : History of Macomb County, Michigan : containing
an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, an extensive
and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages, their improvements,
industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies, its war record,
biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers : the whole
preceded by a history of Michigan, statistics of the state and an abstract of
its laws and constitution and of the Constitution of the United States.;
Chicago: M.A. Leeson & Co., 1882, 935 pgs.