Excerpt from Reminiscences, Memoirs and Lectures of Monsignor A. Ravoux, V. G
In the spring of 1843, he went to Dubuque to see the Right Rev. Bishop Loras, who gave him some encourage ment; then he left Dubuque for Prairie du Chien, where he spent almost two months, and printed, with a small printing press belonging to Very Rev. J. Cretin, a book in the Sioux language, and then returned to his mission.
In the months of January, February, and March, 1844, twenty-three Indians and half-breeds received the sacrament of baptism, but, unfortunately for that new mission, Rev. L.
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