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Recorded in the studios of Covenant Network with Theresa Holman in Saint Louis, Missouri, Msgr. Michael Witt, professor of Church History at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, shares with us the history of the Saint Louis, Volume 1.
St. Louis street names acquire ancestors, and you may never read the map quite the same way.
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La Salle moves from unwanted farm life toward fur trading, Jesuit politics, and Joliet's blocked Illinois plan.
Robert La Salle takes the spotlight as the next-generation figure after Father Marquette's death, with perseverance framed as the episode's central lesson. In Canada, the Sulpicians help him secure farmland, though farming never seems to hold his attention for long.
Spanish power, New Orleans trade, and St. Louis commerce come together in a grounded account of colonial change.
Spanish rule comes into focus here as both a show of force and a story of commercial repair. O'Reilly's arrival ends the New Orleans insurrection swiftly, and the city's recovery through favored trade with Havana gives the episode a clear sense of how power and prosperity worked…
A river journey turns into a family story of illness, faith, settlement, and Kansas City.
River traffic shapes the episode, beginning with the return of Lewis and Clark's Discovery Corps and widening into the Choteau family's commercial world. Pirogues on the Mississippi, barges moving goods to the Yankton Sioux, and the family's reach across St.
A gifted house, a fourth immigrant wave, and an absent official church reveal Saint Louis taking shape under Spanish authority.
Saint Louis emerges here as a settlement built through personal choices, useful trades, and shifting imperial control. The episode moves from Laclede's deed of a 23-by-60-foot stone house to the Chateaus into the fourth wave of immigrants led by Saint-Ange de Belle-Rive and his…
A focused look at Osage power, village design, and the contested making of St. Louis.
The Osage episode broadens St. Louis's founding story beyond the village of roughly 700 people, moving from Broadway Avenue and 12th Street into Osage country across Missouri, eastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and northern Arkansas.
Black Hills history, told on location.
Vegas history with a barstool pulse.
Connecticut history with national echoes.
Texas history, sourced and road-tested.
Maine history, widened through public talks.
Sebastian Mahfoud and a Catholic priest examine Emmanuel Hessa’s 1780 British-backed plan to attack St.
Sebastian Mahfoud and Teresa trace how French Revolutionary persecution brought Father Joseph Marie de Denard and Father Charles Neringx to the St.
Sebastian Mahfoud and a Monsignor examine German migration into Missouri communities including Apple Creek, Perryville, Franklin, Boonville, Liberty, Clark, and Columbia.
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Sebastian Mahfoud and a monsignor trace Bishop Dubourg's 1817 journey from France to Saint Louis after Louis XVIII offered him passage on the French warship La Caravane.
The episode frames the Osage as co-founders of St.
WCAT Radio episode 47, "Out to Kansas City and Chicago," traces how Catholic frontier history in St.
Sebastian Mahfoud and Teresa frame Robert La Salle as the next figure after Father Marquette, with perseverance and anti-Jesuit politics driving the story.
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Sebastian Mahfoud and the Monsignor trace Episode 18 of St.
A professor of Church History discusses the early history of St.
This episode transitions from volume one to volume two of the history of St.