Ep. 1.27: Father Emery Fears the Revolution

06/10/2025 24 min Episodio 27
Ep. 1.27: Father Emery Fears the Revolution

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As Bishop Carroll rises to leadership in the American Church, the chaos of the French Revolution sends waves of clergy fleeing to safety—including the elite Sulpicians. This episode explores how their arrival reshaped Catholic education and missionary work in the U.S., and how a world-class seminary nearly relocated from Paris to Baltimore.
 
*Saint Louis: The Story of Catholic Evangelization of America's Heartland originally aired on Covenant Network Catholic Radio. These podcast episodes are being released in anticipation of the Bicentennial Celebrations of the founding of the Archdiocese of St. Louis as the Diocese of St. Louis on July 18, 1826.