Kentucky Holy Land

5. Name for yard shrines to the Virgin Mary, spotted across the Kentucky Holy Land.
9. First bishop in Kentucky, arrived in 1808.
10. Kentucky town that was the seat of the first Catholic diocese created west of the Appalachians.
12. First American Catholic church building constructed west of the Appalachians.
13. Parish that was home to early sites of a seminary, the Sisters of Charity, the diocesan center, and a boys' orphanage.
14. First Catholic priest ordained in the United States.
16. "Giant in the Wilderness" priest who fled Belgium and arrived in Kentucky in 1805.
18. Trappist monastery noted for Thomas Merton.

1. Women's congregation founded in December 1812.
2. Founding leader of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
3. First Dominican foundation in the United States, begun in 1806.
4. The namesake of a local Knob, this priest established the first Kentucky Catholic church.
6. African American Catholic church founded in 1929.
7. Women's teaching order founded in April 1812.
8. First American cathedral constructed west of the Appalachians, completed 1823.
11. Dominican women's congregation founded in 1822.
15. Atlantic state from which most early Kentucky Catholics migrated.
17. Historic Catholic men's college in Marion County, operated 1821-1976.