GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-103

St. Mary Church
Bethel and Cherry Streets
P.O. Box 335
Sanger, CA 93657

Phone: 559-875-2025

 

History: St. Mary Church, Sanger, Fresno County, California, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Fresno (Archives: Fresno, California).

1933-1967

Monterey-Fresno diocesan priests at St. Mary’s attended to St. Rita Mission (Miwok), Squaw Valley

1967-1980 (transferred to St. Isidore’s, Orange Cove)

Fresno diocesan priests at St. Mary’s attended to St. Rita’s

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1933-1980

Volume: Few entries among several volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Rita Mission.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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