Tim Wenzl

Angelus to Xavier Catholic Place Names in Kansas Obvious & Obscure Tim Wenzl

The title of this volume alone is intriguing. Amazing discoveries await the reader. Archivist Tim Wenzl shares the fruits of his passion for research in this volume of more than 300 Kansas communities with Catholic names. Included in this gazetteer are communities named for saints, popes, cardinals, bishops, priests and friars, nuns and religious sisters, Spanish explorers, frontiersmen, and ordinary Catholics. Communities originally established as Catholic colonies and named for the émigrés homeland are also listed. The stories of how and why the communities were named, together with biographical features, provide a unique look at Kansas history.