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About Our Parish
Our roots as a Catholic community are the outgrowth of the efforts of early Jesuit missionaries of the 1600’s. Frs. Marquette and Nouvel traveled the Michigan wilderness in service of the Chippewa, Iroquois, Ottawa, and Huron Indians as well as early fur traders.
Fr. Nouvel’s journal indicates that he celebrated the first Mass on the banks of the Saginaw River on December 3, 1675.
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JOSEPH CHURCH, the first Catholic Church in the Saginaw Valley, was founded in the winter of 1850. Two other churches existed in Bay County: the Methodist Indian Mission Church in Kawkawlin (1847) and St. Paul Lutheran Church in Frankenlust Township (1849).
Roman Catholic missionaries began regular visits to the Saginaw Valley as early as 1829.
Other visitors included Fr. Kundig, Fr. Louis, and Fr. Peter Kindekens, the vicar general, who encouraged the construction of the first church building. The growing lumbering and fishing industries attracted many French-spe
