sentences:  Before withdrawing from those lands that they had originally wanted to incorporate into their empire, the French had determined that the Catholic communities should remain in existence.Obviously, before the Treaty of Ryswick, the Church of Konken was served by a Catholic priest and after the Treaty, it was barred to Catholics, who were then parochially united with Kusel.In Sweden, of course, it was the Lutheran faith that predominated, leading to a revival of sorts in the Palatinate.