The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a ...

NMU’s Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center hosted a full day of presentations, and films to help Marquette residents better understand how the place they call “home” came to be.

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Father Jacques Marquette, the man who gave Marquette its name, made an incredible mark not only on the Upper Peninsula, but throughout North America as well. The French Jesuit Missionary built an ...

Sunday, May 18 marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit priest who famously explored the route from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River in 1673. Few ...

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University will be holding an event to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the passing of Marquette’s namesake, Father Jacques Marquette. The full-day event will ...

being home to many Indigenous cultures and traditions — including the Seneca village Ganatsekwyagon and the route of famous French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette. But this piece ...

The following article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on April 16, 2024. “Pere Marquette” names a river, a city, a railroad, several parks ...

One of the stops was Marquette State Prison, a maximum security facility nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the North." While they were there, the warden, Emery Jacques, repeatedly asked Adams to bring ...