 John Francis Noll, later Bishop of Fort Wayne in Indiana, was a small town priest who, having grown weary of anti-Catholic literature, and especially a widely circulated anti-Catholic paper called "The Menace," decided to print a parish bulletin.The first issue of "Our Sunday Visitor", numbering 35,000 copies, was dated May 5, 1912.A year later, the circulation of the paper had reached 160,000 copies, far beyond Noll's parish.