GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Wisconsin: WI-20
St. Anthony of Padua Church
38 Old Abe Road
P.O. Box 38
Lac du Flambeau, WI 54538
Phone: 715-588-3148
Email: stanthony@frontier.com
History: St. Anthony of Padua Church, Lac du Flambeau, Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Wisconsin, has been a predominantly Native American (Ojibwa) parish in the Diocese of Superior (Archives: Superior, Wisconsin).
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1854-1860s? |
Milwaukee diocesan priests at Notre Dame Church, Chippewa Falls, established and attended Waswagoning mission (Ojibwa), Old Village, Waswagoning, Lac du Flambeau Reservation |
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1861-1870s |
Rev. John Chebul, a Milwaukee diocesan priest at Christ Church, Bayfield, visited and attended Waswagoning mission |
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1880-1918 |
Franciscans (Sacred Heart Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) from St. Agnes, Ashland, attended Waswagoning mission |
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1894-1918 |
Rev. Chrysostom Verwyst, O.F.M. [Franciscans], and subsequent Franciscans from St. Agnes, established and attended St. Anthony of Padua Mission (Ojibwa), Lac du Flambeau/ New Village, Lac du Flambeau Reservation |
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1895-ca. 1915 (closed) |
Franciscans from St. Agnes established and attended St. Joseph Mission (Ojibwa), Lac du Flambeau |
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1905 |
Under Rev. Odoric Derenthal, O.F.M., St. Anthony’s relocated to nearby Pokegama Lake where the parish constructed a new church building |
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1918-1938 |
Superior diocesan priests at St. Francis, Reserve, attended to St. Anthony’s |
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1938-1944 |
Franciscans from St. Francis, Reserve, attended to St. Anthony’s |
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1944-1977 |
St. Anthony of Padua Church became a parish administered by resident Franciscans |
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1977-present |
Diocesan priests have administered St. Anthony’s |
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1977-present |
Diocesan priests from St. Anthony’s attended to St. Mary Mission (Ojibwa), Odanah, Bad River Reservation |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1889-ongoing
Volume: 1 cubic foot
Description: The records at St. Anthony of Padua Church were not arranged according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 1980. Consequently, the records are described by record type.
/1 Sacramental records
Inclusive dates: 1889-ongoing
Volume: 11 volumes
Description: Includes baptisms, 1889-present; marriages, 1908-present; deaths, 1925-present; first communions, 1937- present; and confirmations, 1926-present.
/2 Photographs
Inclusive dates: 1960s, undated
Volume: 166 prints
Description: Students and school activities.
Unless noted otherwise, the repository named above holds (or held) the records described and not the Marquette University Archives. However, Marquette’s holdings, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, include related records about these Native and Catholic groups and places.
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