Plistoriosil 3R,e-\rie^w- The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI RICHARD S. BROWNLEE EDITOR MARY K. DAINS ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAMES W. GOODRICH ASSOCIATE EDITOR Copyright © 1977 by the State Historical Society of Missouri Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. The MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW is owned by the State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 201 South Eight Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communications, business and editorial VOLUME LXXI correspondence and change of address to the State Historical Society of Missouri, Corner of Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, MO. 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. NUMBER 2 The REVIEW is sent free to all members of The State Historical Society of Missouri. Membership dues in the Society are $2.00 a year or $40 for an individual life membership. The Society assumes no responsibility for state­ ments made by contributors to the magazine. JANUARY 1977 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of the State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R. S. of Mo., 1969, Chapter 183, as revised 1973. OFFICERS 1974-1977 ELMER ELLIS, Columbia, President RUSSELL V. DYE, Liberty, First Vice President JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry, Second Vice President MRS. AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, Third Vice President REV. JOHN F. BANNON, S.J., St. Louis, Fourth Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Fifth Vice President MRS. VIRGINIA YOUNG, Columbia, Sixth Vice President ALBERT M. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer RICHARD S. BROWNLEE, Columbia, Director, Secretary and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau LEO J. 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Brownlee Director and Secretary State Historical Society of Missouri Hitt and Lowry Streets Columbia, Missouri 65201 i§IMS[H@[SI§[S][H][S[lffl ® ® m ISI AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE | m m The editorial staff of the MISSOURI HISTORICAL |j m REVIEW asks that members of the State Historical So- g) m ciety of Missouri, who are moving or have moved to a jg M new location, please inform the Society of changes of address, as soon as possible. To remail a returned issue of the REVIEW under new postal rates is very expensive. In addition to elim­ inating this costly procedure, the immediate notifica­ tion of a change of address will enable the member to receive the REVIEW at an earlier date. Changes of address should be sent to: State Historical Society of Missouri Corner of Hitt arid Lowry Streets |f Columbia, Missouri 65201 El![H][ CATHOLIC CHURCH Inside Back Cover Peter Richard Kenrick Kenrick's First Seminary BY JOHN E. RYBOLT, CM.' The life of Peter Richard Kenrick as Archbishop of St. Louis was marked at its beginning and end by concern for two seminaries. The first had a precarious brief existence; the second, which proudly bears the archbishop's name, has flourished for 83 years in St. Louis. In this concern, Kenrick manifested the church's enduring effort to provide priestly candidates with a solid education. A study of the origins of Kenrick's first two seminaries is intended to pay tribute to that great pioneer bishop.l Previous to the establishment of a diocesan structure for the Lou­ isiana Purchase, and then for St. Louis itself (in 1826), the spiritual "John E. Rybolt, CM., is academic dean and professor of Old Testament at Ken­ rick Seminary, St. Louis. He holds graduate degrees in Latin, Near Eastern Languages, Theology and Scripture and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation in Biblical Studies at Saint Louis University. 1 The standard major history of the archdiocese of St. Louis is John Rothensteiner, History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, 2 vols. (St. Louis, 1928). A smaller, more recent work is William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., Dream by the River: Two Centuries of Saint Louis Catholicism (St. Louis, 1973). A recent work on the seminaries is John David Burke, "The Seminary of Saint Louis, 1818-1918: Foundation for ordination" (unpub­ lished Master's thesis, St. Louis University, 1966). 139 140 Missouri Historical Review needs of the area's Roman Catholic citizens were cared for by a hand­ ful of missionaries, from Canada and Mexico. Beginning in 1818, priests for the diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas studied at St. Mary's of the Barrens, Perryville, Missouri.2 From its foundation in that year until 1842, its faculty of Vincentian Fathers taught Vincen- tian students, candidates for the diocesan clergy and secular college students. The first Bishop of St. Louis, Joseph Rosati, CM., had been superior of his fellow Vincentians at the Barrens, and knew firsthand the concerns of maintaining three sorts of institutions under the same roof. This concern later Influenced his decision to transfer the semi­ nary from the Barrens to St. Louis.3 In 1823, Rosati was elected coadjutor-bishop of the sprawling dio­ cese, and in 1826 he succeeded Bishop William Valentine DuBourg.