The 100 years of faith we celebrate this year began long before the building of the first Catholic Church in Rocky Mountain House. Between 1841-1875 Oblates arrived at the Hudson Bay Trading post in Rocky Mountain House and the first Mass was celebrated there on October 5, 1845, by Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit. Meetings began on July 1, 1925, about the possibility of building a Catholic Church in Rocky Mountain House and by August 27, 1926,…
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