The Catholic Church in the state of Alabama reaches as far back as European contact with native peoples during the May 1539 De Soto expedition into the southern interior. Following the expedition, Spanish Catholic missionaries would be the first to bring Christianity into North America. Mobile would later become the center of Alabama’s Catholic life when French Catholics first settled in the city. The center point of Catholicism in Alabama would become the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Yet the cathedral was not always the beautiful and historic landmark that it is now.
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