Ste. Marie is a village in Jasper County, Illinois, United States, along the Embarras River. The population was 244 at the 2010 census.

In the in the future 1800s, some French had become greatly concerned and disconcerted by the effects upon the Catholic Church from the French Revolution and the attacks by unbelieving philosophers. Some families, including the Picquets, began to deem emigrating in order to pronounce elsewhere a extra social order based upon the principles of the Gospel. In 1835, 19-year-old Joseph Picquet was sent to the United States to “spy out the land” and report support to the family. Joseph landed in New York and worked for nine months in a business home in Philadelphia. In ahead of time 1836, Joseph began his exploration of the country. His travels took him to Pittsburgh; Lima, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Indianapolis; Vincennes, Indiana; Vandalia, Illinois; and St. Louis. Instructed to stay away from large cities, he turned eastward and finally decided upon the home in Eastern Illinois that is now Ste. Marie, partly because of its proximity to Vincennes, a strong French city subsequently an availability of priests to tell Mass. At that grow old there was not a single house between Newton and Olney. In October 1836 Joseph returned to France and gave a favorable tab of the land.

On January 29, 1837, an connection of five including Jacques Picquet, Joseph Picquet, Joseph Schifferstein, Charles Hoffman and Joseph Picquet was formed, with the intent of acquiring and developing home in the United States. A concord was written and signed by the members of the association. On June 20, Joseph returned to the United States once the nucleus of a colony, all amalgamated by either blood or marriage, 25 in all, on the ship Mogul. Because they were anything related, the new settlement was to be named Colonie des Freres or “Colony of Brothers”. On July 20, the new immigrants bought a little farm close St. Francisville where they stayed for several months. On October 1, the settlers left St. Francisville and came to start their other settlement. They boarded in the appearance of William Price who had a cabin nearby. On October 12, Ferdinand Hartrich, Etienne Lauer and Joseph Picquet went to Palestine and recorded nearly 12,000 acres (49 km) in the Land Office there.

Father Stephen Theodore Badin, a Frenchman, came during this period to bless this put on an act of their own hands and celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in their presence. Father Badin was the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States. A rock monument fashioned to look like a log cabin stands on the grounds of the University of Notre Dame as a rave review to him. There is as well as a mosaic on the east porch of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. in memory of him.