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The Good Word on America’s Railways
Before WWI, priests evangelized in mission territory riding chapel cars named after saints
BY JEAN GUARINO
September 1, 1996 Issue |
Posted 9/1/96 at 11:00 AM
AROUND THE TURN of the century, salesmen reached far-off customers by train. Priests used the same mode of transportation to spread the faith in rural areas in the northwest and south.
Chapel cars were attached to the back of trains traveling through these regions. From 1909 to 1917 they introduced the Catholic faith in towns where most people had never seen a Catholic, much less a priest, and most were deeply suspicious of outsiders.
The three chapel cars, “St. Anthony,” “St. Peter” and “St....
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