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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 26 June 1885, Page 9

In 1841 there were only twenty souls in the city of Peoria, 111., who professed the Catholic Faith, and were attended to by Ber. Father B. Ratio. In 1846 the number had increased and built a little church. To-day the Catholic population numbers fully 6,000 souls, with five grand and imposing edifices, ministered to by nine priests, directed by the zealous Bishop, Rt. Rev. John L. Spalding. Sixladian boys of the Catholic Missions of the Rocky Mountains will be taken to Ireland during the coming summer, says an exchange, to be educated for the priesthood in the missionary college lately established near Limerick, Should the young men persevere and receive Holy Orders, they will return to their native West to labour among those of tbeir own race.