It was an August night in 1916 when Msgr. Joseph J. Bosetti saw a fiery meteor fall from the sky. An avid mountaineer and, at the time, a young assistant pastor at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Msgr. Bosetti later related that the meteor seemed to fall into the aspen and pine-covered forests at the foot of Mount Meeker. He never found the meteor, but at dawn, did discover an impressive lichen-covered rock formation. Bosetti regarded this as a message from heaven and vowed to build a chapel on the site.

Over the next several decades, thousands of boys, aged ten to eighteen attended the camp while Bosetti saw his dreams of building a chapel realized. The story of the chapel and the Camp is covered in a new book, published in June, 2001, The Chapel on the Rock: A brief history of Camp St. Malo and St. Catherine of Siena Chapel by Fara Kearnes.

Catholicism arrived in Denver in 1859, with the arrival of Fr. Joseph Machebeuf who was given all of Colorado and Utah as his parish. Colorado Catholicism and the Archiocese of Denver, 1857-1989 by Thomas Noel, history professor at the University of Colorado. covers a 130-year span of Catholic life throughout the Archdiocese of Denver. From gun-slinging priests, to high society, to Vatican II, this outstanding book is the only full history and reference guide to Colorado's Catholic heritage. With an introduction by J. Francis Cardinal Stafford, former Archbishop of Denver.