Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 68: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; October, 1898 to March, 1899 Being French, these pioneers were Catholic, so that it may be said that \the history Of the Church in St. Louis is the history of the city itself. For many years the place was a trading post, and nothing more. Within less than forty years it owed allegiance to three different governments: from 1768 to 1800 it was under Spain, returning to France by the cession of Louisiana, and becoming a part of the United States by purchase in 1803. In 1809 St. Louis was incorporated as a town, and in 1822 it became a chartered city, with a population of five thousand souls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.