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He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and left lame. In Colorado, he organized parishes, procured priests and by 1868 had erected eighteen churches including the first church in Denver.
While vicar apostolic, Machebeuf founded an academy and a school for boys in Denver, a convent of the Sisters of Loretto, St. Joseph's Hospital in Denver, the House of the Good Shepherd and the College of the Sacred Heart in Denver. The Catholic population of Colorado increased under his tenure from a few thousand to approximately 50,000 ...
The Diocese of Colorado Springs (Latin: Dioecesis Coloratensium Fontium) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in central Colorado in the United States. St. Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the diocese in Colorado Springs. The Diocese of Colorado Springs was established on November 10, 1983. [1]
Colorado Springs: Light: 1908 [11] 1912 [11] Weekly [11] Edited by Frederick Mason Roberts. [11] Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Sun: 1897 [12] [13] 1905 [12] Weekly [12] Founded to fulfill "the need of an independent, reliable organ, wherein the Afro-Americans of this city . . . could find expression of their best thought and material ...
John Franklin Spalding (August 25, 1828 – March 9, 1902) was a missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He served as Bishop of Colorado, first as missionary and later as diocesan, between 1873 and 1902.
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Leo Heinrichs, OFM (August 15, 1867 – February 23, 1908) was a religious priest of the Franciscan Order. While assigned to St. Elisabeth of Hungary Church in Denver, Colorado, Heinrichs was fatally shot while distributing communion.
St Joseph's was the site of a mass excommunication of more than 100 parishioners, after it was found that Father Malone had embezzled a large sum of money. 637 Galapago (also known as the Samsonite house), across the street from the church was built for the sum of $12,000 in the name of Father Malone's mother. The embezzled sum was also $12,000 ...