MENDOTA, Minn. (UPI) -- Authorities are investigating vandalism at an historic cemetery in

MENDOTA,   Minn.  (UPI)  --  Authorities  are  investigating
vandalism at an historic cemetery in Mendota.

   St.  Peter's Church  pastor  Kevin1  grave  markers  were
damaged last week.

   The  parish  was  the  first  in  Minnesota,  having been
founded in 1840.  The cemetery contains graves  of  some  of
Minnesota's earliest permanent white settlers.

   Some  of  the headstones that were broken or knocked over
bore dates of people who  died  in  the  mid-1800s,  Clinton
said.   Other  damage included people's names, and "satanic"
symbols were written in chalk on an alter.