Father Crockett of Grand Ronde
Life of a saintly missionary at this Oregon Reservation (1860-98), with studies, including
the bilingual texts of Chinook hymns and catechism, and letters of his successor to St Katharine Drexel.
viii + 120 pages, 11” x 8.5” $10.00
Indian Journal of Rev. R.W. Summers
Episcopal priest and anthropologist, who befriended the local Indians (1873-80), illustrated with his collection of artifacts preserved in the British Museum.
50 + 120 pages, 11” x 8.5” $15.00
Fr Felix Bucher, Missionary & Mystic of Grand Ronde
Successor to Fr Crockett (1894-1937), written by Fr Cletus LaMere in 1962, but with appendices based on later publications. xxviii + 88 pages, 8.5” x 4.25” $5.00.
The Singing Priest of Siletz, Fr Raymond of Ocean Lake
Centennial history of the Catholic parish on the Siletz
Reservation, with emphasis on its outstanding pastor of the 1920s.
92 text pages + 8 of photographic illustrations, 8.5” x 4.25: $5.00
* The Amish of Amity [NEW]
Account of the Amish settlements in Oregon from the 1870s until the 1970s, with an appendix on the Old German Baptists of nearby Perrydale. iv + 78 pages, 8.5” x 4.25” $4.00.
* Oregon’s First Contemplatives [NEW]
Short biographies of the 42 Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood who are buried in Portland, Oregon, where their Sisterhood existed for 102 years. iv + 28 pages, 8.5” x 4.25” $1.00.
* First Contemplatives of the Least-Churched State [NEW]
An overall history of monastery of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood in Portland, 1892-1994. This French-Canadian Sisterhood is probably the first to originate in the New World. With an appendix on current houses of prayer in the area. 24 pages, 8.5” x 4.25” 1.00.
* St Patrick’s Church of Muddy Valley, Yamhill County’s First Catholic Church
Projected just before the California Gold Rush drained Oregon of its settlers, it was not actually built until the arrival of the saintly Fr Crockett in 1860.
It was soon eclipsed by the establishment of a parish with a resident priest in nearby McMinnville (1876). This idyllic account is based on the baptismal record, newspaper articles and other sources.
ii + 26 pages, 8.5” x 4.25” $1.00
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