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346:. In 1836, given his advanced age, Badin decided to leave his Indian mission to his successor, Father Louis Desaille. Badin was named vicar of the Diocese of Bardstown in 1837. He continued missionary work as well as defended Catholicism, particularly in a series of "Letters to an Episcopalian Friend" published in the
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Choctaw Indian Academy. While in France, Badin ministered to two parishes, Millaney and Marreilly-en-Gault near Orléans. He worked to secure gifts of money and church furniture to send to the Kentucky mission churches. In 1822,
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Fathers Badin and Michel Barriere to the new state of Kentucky. They set out on foot on 3 September 1793, about a year after Flaget moved to Kentucky. The two priests crossed the Appalachian Mountains, then took a
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