Flathead St. Mary’s Founded, 1841
In 1840 Pierre Jean De Smet born in Belgium, after surveying the potential, became highly enthusiastic due to the Indian response.
"The Apostles of Protestantism are beginning to crowd in and pick out the best places, and soon the avarice and cupidity of civilized man will make the same inroads here as in the east, and the abominable influences of the vices of the frontier will interpose the same barrier to the introduction of the gospel “