St. Michael's Mission church and monument, 1936.

ID: 5786 ~ Source: Courtesy of: “Northwest -- Missions -- Washington -- Mount St. Michaels (#01),” Spokane Public Library, accessed May 31, 2023, https://lange.spokanelibrary.org/items/show/358.
This file appears in: St. Michael's Mission Marker
St. Michael's Mission church and monument, 1936.

Picture of the mission from a hilltop, taken September 7, 1936. Former location of St. Michael’s Mission chapel, with the mission marker standing in front.

This file appears in: St. Michael's Mission Marker

By Regan Hutchinson
The Reverend Joseph Cataldo opened the St. Michael’s Mission in the 1860s. The simple log structure of that time was intended to be a school for both white and Indian pupils. Born Giuseppe Cataldo in Sicily in 1837, this Jesuit missionary is…