Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart (Cataldo, Idaho)

found: NUCMC data from Idaho Oral Hist. Center, Idaho State Hist. Soc. for T.E. Connolly interview, 1989(Cataldo Mission)

found: GNIS, Sept. 21, 2004(Cataldo Mission; church in Kootenai County, Idaho; 473254N; 1162126W)

found: Anglerguide.com WWW, Sept. 21, 2004(Cataldo Mission; Old Mission; Mission of the Sacred Heart; est. by Jesuits in the early 1840s at the invitation of the Coeur d'Alene Indians; first mission church est. on the St. Joe River about 35 miles south of the present site; due to flooding, it was closed in 1846, and a new mission church begun [on the current site])

found: Cody. History of the Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart : Old Mission, Cataldo, Idaho, c1930:p. 5, etc. (at what was once the head of navigation of the Coeur d'Alene River stands the Church of The Sacred Heart; in 1842 Fr. Point and Br. Huet were directed to est. a mission among the Coeur d'Alenes; Fr. Point chose a location on the St. Joe River for the new mission and dedicated it to the Sacred Heart; the location proved unsatisfactory and in 1846 a new site was selected; Fr. Joset chose the Sacred Heart Mission for his headquarters in 1846; building the church was begun in 1848, it opened for services in 1852 or 1853; the station on the Union Pacific RR about a mile from the Old Mission was named in honor of Fr. Cataldo who came in 1865; when the bounds of the Indian reservation were set in 1877 the Old Mission was not within them so the tribe migrated to Desmet, Idaho, after that the Old Church was little used)

found: A preliminary study of archaeological relationships at the Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Coeur d'Alene Indians, 1976:p. 1 (the church was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962) p. 35-39 (Fr. Point consecrated the new mission to The Sacred Heart in 1842; Fr. DeVos change the name of the mission to St. Josephs in 1843; Fr. DeSmet reinstated the name of the mission as that of the Sacred Heart in 1844)

found: Boone. Idaho place names, c1988:p. 70 (Cataldo; on the Coeur d'Alene River; famous for the Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart, or Old Mission, which was built nearby)

found: State of Idaho Parks and Recreation WWW site, Oct. 21, 2010:Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park page (Mission of the Sacred Heart or Sacred Heart Mission; location: Cataldo, ID)