Reminiscing Our Bygone Years – Montana Missions

Reminiscing Our Bygone Years – Montana Missions

“In response to a request from the Salish for “Black Robes,” in 1841 Jesuit priests Pierre-Jean De Smet, Nicholas Point, and Gregory Mengarini founded the first Catholic mission in what would later become Montana Territory – St. Mary’s Mission. The original mission was located between the present sites of Fort Owen and Stevensville, in the Bitterroot Valley. The founding date of September 24 coinc...