1303 Eminent Theologian

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Bishop John Lancaster Spalding, also sociologist and writer, born here on June 2, 1840. Graduated St. Marys College, 1856, at age 16. He was ordained at American College, Louvain, Belgium, in 1863. Organized first Louisville Negro parish, St. Augustines, in 1866. Consecrated first Bishop of Peoria, Ill., in 1877. A great influence on US Catholic education. Died 1916 at Peoria.