Leavenworth County Churches
Holy Family Catholic Church, Tonganoxie
"History of Leavenworth County," 1921
The Catholics in the Tonganoxie community were visited
in the early days of the county by Rev. Louis Guenther, O. C. C, and other priests of the neighboring missions.
When St. Patrick's Church at Hoge received a resident priest in
Father McCaul, he and his successors there attended Tonganoxie as a
mission.
The Rev. O. E. Degan, Rev. J. A. Budrean and Rev. E. Fischer, who
is now pastor at Holy Family Church at Tonganoxie, have succeeded one
another as resident priests of the church at Tonganoxie.
The Sisters of Charity, of Nazareth, was founded by a priest by the
name of John Baptist Mary David, who came to America from France
with the future Bishop Flaget, whose coadjutor he became in Bardstown,
Kentucky. Their first school was opened there in 1819. Their rule was
founded after that of St. Vincent de Paul.
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