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 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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