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The Cathedral of Saint Paul is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is the co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, along with the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis. One of the most distinctive cathedrals in the United States, it sits on Cathedral Hill overlooking downtown Saint Paul and ...
The Chapel of Saint Paul, which later served as the first Cathedral of Saint Paul, was a log chapel built on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in 1841 by Lucien Galtier. It served as the first cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Saint Paul from June 1851 to December 1851. It was also used as a school until it was eventually dismantled.
The building served as the cathedral of the diocese from 1858 until 1914. [1] During the winter, Mass would be celebrated in the basement. [1] Several significant liturgies happened in the third cathedral: John Ireland was consecrated as a bishop on December 21, 1875, and the triple consecration of James McGolrick, John Shanley, and Joseph Cotter took place on December 27, 1889.
A History of the City of Saint Paul to 1875 (1876) online also reprinted Vol. 4. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1983. Wills, Jocelyn. Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005). Wingerd, Mary Lethert.
When Joseph Crétin was appointed as the bishop of the newly established Diocese of St. Paul in July 1851, a log chapel served as the first cathedral. However, even prior to Crétin's arrival, Father Augustin Ravoux urged him to purchase land for a new cathedral to serve the fast-growing population of Saint Paul as the log chapel was proving too small.
A burial mound at Indian Mounds Park. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago. [17] [18] From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a band of the Dakota people, lived near the mounds at the village of Kaposia and consider the area encompassing present-day Saint Paul Bdóte, the site ...
The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, was built by railroad magnate James J. Hill. The house, completed in 1891, is near the eastern end of Summit Avenue near the Cathedral of Saint Paul. The house, for its time, was very large and was the "showcase of St. Paul" until James J. Hill's death in 1916. [1]
He was appointed pastor at Saint Paul's cathedral in 1867, a position which he held until 1875. [6] In 1875, he was made coadjutor bishop of St. Paul and in 1884 he became bishop ordinary. [3] In 1888 he became archbishop with the elevation of his diocese and the erection of the ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul. [7]