100 Years for God and Country-Saint John's Gildehaus

This item is a set of excerpts (pages 63–64, 71–78, and 141–142) from 100 Years for God and Country—Saint John's Gildehaus, the centennial parish history of Saint John's Catholic parish in Gildehaus, Franklin County, Missouri. The selected pages cover Father Schuermann's pastorate (1923–1934) and, most substantially, the history of the parish's schools and their teachers from the pioneer log-schoolhouse era through the late 1980s—including the succession of lay schoolmasters, the Ursuline nuns, the Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi, and the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood. It records that the Precious Blood Sisters first came to Saint John's in 1872 (then based at Bell Prairie, Illinois, as one of the new American congregation's earliest missions) before relocating their motherhouse to O'Fallon, Missouri, and that the O'Fallon C.PP.S. Sisters returned in 1933 under an arrangement making them the official teachers of the combined parish/public district school—the very Gildehaus setup later challenged in the Berghorn case. The pages include named rosters of early Sisters, staff lists for 1989, and a long chronological roster of the C.PP.S. Sisters who served Saint John's from 1939 onward, making this a rich prosopography source for tracing individual O'Fallon Precious Blood Sisters and their assignments.