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Utah’s Days of ’47: It’s a place for Latter-day Saints, of course, but Catholics, too

Did a Jesuit explorer help convert Brigham Young to settling in the Salt Lake Valley?

This Salt Lake Tribune photo shows Catholic Bishop Duane G. Hunt, left, with President George Albert Smith, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, center, and Mahonri Young, monument sculptor, at the July 1947 dedication of the statute at what is now This Is the Place Heritage Park.