Sestini cannot find the detailed biographical account of Bishop John Miege, S.J. written at Woodstock. Father Aloysius Curioz, S.J. could give a good account. The first time Sestini saw Miege was in 1844 at Rome where he and Curioz went through a course of theology. These two were ordained in 1847 and with everyone else were forced to leave Rome by the Revolution in 1848. Sestini with Father De Vico went to France where they met Miege and Curioz in Marseilles. Miege intended to come to the Rocky Mountains in America. Curioz went to the Missions of Louisiana where he has remained. Miege went first to St. Louis before going to the Rocky Mountains. To his great disappointment he was appointed Vicar Apostolic in 1851 for the territory between the States and the Rocky Mountains. The responsibility of the change and a desire for an obscure life and not certainly the apprehension of a life of labor, was the cause of his disturbance. St. Mary's in Kansas was his first residence which in 1855 was transferred to Leavenworth where he found only seven Catholic families. After building a Cathedral at Leavenworth and an episcopal residence, he petitioned the Holy See and a successor was named for him. Miege then traveled through South America and with the aid of the faithful was able to liquidate his debts. Miege retired as a simple Jesuit to St. Louis University and shortly after to Woodstock. In the spring of 1883 he was prostrated by paralysis and he died a year later. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.