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The mighty Mississippi was once named ‘River of the Immaculate Conception.’ Here’s why
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by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Dec 4, 2022 / 08:00 am “Immaculate” is not a word most people would use to describe the Mississippi River’s famously muddy waters. But Father Jacques Marquette was not most people. The Jesuit explorer, who came from France as a missionary to Canada in …