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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 12 4 CHAPTER VII THE REVEREND JAMES P. FOLEY of Colorado and On February 5th, 1868 Utah became part of the Vicariate-Apostoli- c Utah, and the Holy See appointed the Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf as the titular Bishop of Epiphania and the Administrator of the new territory. He was consecrated hy Archbishop John B. Purcell on August 16th of that year in St. Peters Cathedral, Cincinnati, and established his see at Denver, Colorado. One of his first official acts was to send the Reverend James P. Foley to Salt Lake as pastor of the city and surrounding territory. Father Foley, who became Salt Lakes first resident pastor, was hospitably welcomed by his Catholic parishioners who, though few in num' ber, were socially prominent and influential. On November 30th, 1868 Bishop Machebeuf paid an official visit to Salt Lake. .Three Catholic families were then living in the city. He assembled them in the home of Judge Marshall, where a room was set aside as a temporary chapel, and offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for them. On several evenings he gathered the Catholic soldiers of Fort Douglas around him for instruction and on Sunday morning administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to fourteen of them. On December 8th he celebrated two marriages and had three baptisms. He departed on Decembe 10 th. On the lot which had been purchased by F ather Kelly two years before there was a dilapidated adobe structure. This humble ruin Father Foley repaired, and on Sundays and holy-day- s within its mud walls offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and taught his devout little flock the doctrines of the Lord and Master. Father Foley continued his administrations in Salt Lake in obscurity and poverty until the autumn of 1870, at which time he returned to Denver. . CHAPTER VIII THE REVEREND TO USS AINT MESPLIE In December of 1870 the Reverend Touss aint Mesplie, an Indian missionary on his way to San Francisco, stopped at Salt Lake and said Mass in the Mormon Assembly Hall. He likewise offered the Holy Sacrifice for the Catholic soldiers of Fort Douglas on the eighth of December. The Mass was served by an old pioneer, George Rauscher, who was married the same morning. Father Mesplie had been an Indian missionary for more than twenty-fiv- e years and had done much to tame and teach the Indians the arts of civilization. He was of French descent and in the year 1863 was sent to the placer mines of Boise by Archbishop T. N. Blanchet, the first Administrator of Idaho Territory. Within six months, in cooperation with Father A. Z. Poulin ,a Canadian, he had built the first Churches erected for white people in Idaho City, Placer ville, Centerville and Pioneer. In 1867 he erected the first church of any denomination in Idaho. City and also huilt there a school. He built the first Catholic Church in the capitol of Idaho in the year 1870. On January 13th, 1872 Father Mesplie, en route to Washington and his native land, France, again stopped at Salt Lake City and sang the High Mass at St. Mary Magdalens Church. , I CHAPTER IX THE REVEREND PATRICK WALSH On February 12th, 1871 Utah was again placed under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of San Francisco, and the Rev. Patrick Walsh was appointed pastor of Salt Lake by Arch- - |