There seems to have been a sudden Catholic interest in Virginia in 1687. There is supposedly a monument to a Jesuit priest killed in Stafford County that year while trying to work among the Indian population and two Jesuits were active in Norfolk the same year. The Jesuit priest in Stafford County may have been brought in by George Brent.

Two Jesuits were arrested for missionary work in the 1630s in the area that eventually became Westmoreland County. Apparently they had come from the Settlement at St. Marys in Maryland.

Bill Russell

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