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Tulalip Bay (Click for full-size image)
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In 1857, the Rev. Eugene Casimir Chirouse, O.M.I. established the Tulalip Indian Reservation Mission, one of several Indian Missions he helped to found. Well-loved and respected by the people he served, Fr. Chirouse was known as a truly selfless minister of the Gospel. This first Tulalip mission was abandoned and replaced in 1860 by a new mission at Priest Point near Marysville, but the apple tree that Fr. Chirouse had planted still bears fruit, representing the seeds of faith that he had sown as an early Missionary. |