Background
Augustin Ravoux was born January 11, 1815 at Langeac, France.
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Augustin Ravoux was born January 11, 1815 at Langeac, France.
He was educated at the Petit Seminaire and the Grand Seminaire in Le Puy and was ordained a sub-deacon there.
When, in the spring of 1838, Bishop Jean Mathias Loras visited the seminary to get recruits for his large diocese on the upper Mississippi, Ravoux was one who offered himself and in September of that year journeyed with others to Dubuque. There he was ordained deacon in November 1839 and priest in January 1840.
After some months' ministry at Prairie du Chien, he was sent in September 1841 to determine whether a mission could be started among the Sioux Indians of the upper Mississippi and to select the best place for a station. He was thus the first Roman Catholic missionary among these Indians since the abortive attempts of the Jesuits nearly a century earlier. The years from 1841 to 1844 were spent among the Indians and half-breeds of the St. Peter's, now the Minnesota River, with intervals of service and rest at the residence of Father Lucian Galtier, the missionary priest at Mendota, and at St. Paul across the Mississippi.
In 1843 he commenced a mission station at Little Prairie, now Chaska, on the St. Peter's River. There he built a chapel and remained till obliged to take over Father Galtier's work among whites and half-breeds in the spring of 1844. During these years from 1841 to 1844 he was intent on learning the Dakota language, and he mastered it sufficiently to prepare a devotional volume entitled, Wakantanka Ti Ki Chanku, or The Path to the House of God, printed at Prairie du Chien in 1843 and in a second edition in 1863. Later it was reprinted several times with additions as Katolik Wocekiye Wowapi Kin (copies in library of St. Paul Seminary), which had been prepared some thirty years earlier.
With Father Galtier's departure in 1844 ended formal Roman Catholic mission work among the eastern Sioux for many years. The necessity of traveling among the white settlements up and down the Mississippi, St. Peter's, and St. Croix rivers left Ravoux no time for other tasks. He did find opportunity, however, to make two extensive missionary trips in 1845 and 1847 among the Roman Catholics and the Indians on the Missouri. An account of the second trip appears over his name in the United States Catholic Magazine. After the uprising of the Minnesota Sioux in 1862 he did valiant work among the Indian prisoners and their families, converting many, and relieving the distress of others.
From 1844 to 1851 he was the pastor for all the vast area on the headwaters of the Mississippi. Though outside the diocese of Dubuque the rapidly increasing population of St. Paul claimed his attention more and more. Finally, in 1850, and largely through his influence, a new diocese was erected, and the Right Reverend Joseph Crétin came as the first bishop of St. Paul in 1851.
Ravoux, while serving as parish priest for Mendota, proved the bishop's right-hand man in the organization of the diocese and the founding and building of churches and schools, and in 1853 he journeyed to Europe to obtain seminarians for the extensive diocese, now rapidly filling with emigrants from the East and from Europe.
When Bishop Crétin died in 1857, Ravoux was appointed administrator of the diocese and was in charge of the furtherance of the work already begun until the arrival of Bishop Thomas Grace in 1859. Thereafter his health did not permit of regular parish duties, but he was made the vicar-general of both Bishop Grace and his successor, Bishop John Ireland. He also preached occasionally and served in the confessional. His special care for the remainder of his life was the sisterhood of the city. In 1868 he was named titular bishop of Limyra and vicar apostolic of Montana, but lack of health caused him to beg to be relieved of the honor and of a charge that he felt he could not sustain. In 1887 Pope Leo XIII made him a domestic prelate, antistes urbanus, with the title of Monsignor. The last years of his life were spent in retirement.
In 1890 he published Reminiscences, Memoirs, and Lectures of Monsignor A. Ravou, and in 1897 The Labors of Mgr. A. Ravoux Among the Sioux or Dakota Indians 1841 1844. He died in St. Paul.
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