Kentucky Holy Land

2. Historic Catholic men's college in Marion County, operated 1821-1976.
5. Name for yard shrines to the Virgin Mary, spotted across the Kentucky Holy Land.
6. "Giant in the Wilderness" priest who fled Belgium and came to Kentucky in 1805.
7. Parish that was home to early sites of a seminary, the Sisters of Charity, the diocesan center, and a boys' orphanage.
9. The namesake of a local Knob, this priest established the first Kentucky Catholic church.
10. First American Catholic church building constructed west of the Appalachians.
15. Dominican women's congregation founded in 1822.
18. Women's congregation founded in December 1812.
19. First American cathedral constructed west of the Appalachians, completed 1823.

1. One of the leaders of the Catholic migration to Kentucky; also the namesake of a bourbon brand.
3. Atlantic state from which most early Kentucky Catholics migrated.
4. First bishop in Kentucky, arrived in 1808.
5. Kentucky town that was the seat of the first Catholic diocese created west of the Appalachians.
8. African American Catholic church founded in 1929.
11. Influential African American Catholic who created the first Black-owned newspaper in the 1880s.
12. Founding leader of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
13. First Dominican foundation in the United States, begun in 1806.
14. First Catholic priest ordained in the United States.
16. Trappist monastery noted for Thomas Merton, fudge, and fruitcake.
17. Women's teaching order founded in April 1812.