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The Walker's Point settlement was founded in the 1830s. Many of the early settlers were German-speaking Catholics - many with roots in southern Germany and Austria. [3] In the late 1840s, Father Salzmann of St. Mary's Church began organizing those German-speaking Catholics of the south side into Holy Trinity parish.
St. Stanislaus parish was the third Roman Catholic Polish church in the United States and the first based in an urban area. Members started with an old frame building which was purchased in 1866 from nearby St. Stephen Lutheran Church for a sum of $4,500. The twin towered building seen today was completed in 1873 with a parochial school to ...
Established in 1837, St. John's parish was the first Roman Catholic congregation in Milwaukee. In early years, the congregation worshiped at St. Peter's church nearby. [1] Cathedral steeple seen from the northeast. Archbishop John Henni purchased land for the cathedral in 1844. The cornerstone was laid on December 5, 1847, after nearly $30,000 ...
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Saints Peter and Paul parish was created in 1889, a response to the upper east side's rapidly growing German immigrant population during the 1880s and 90s, at the direction of Milwaukee's vicar general, the Right Reverend Leonard Batz. The parish began with forty-three families, and they initially worshiped in a temporary chapel on the corner ...
Description. Gesu, founded 175 years ago in 1849 as St. Gall 's Parish, initially served English-speaking Irish Catholics from the near south and west sides of Milwaukee in what was the neighborhood of Tory Hill. [3] As the parish grew, it built Holy Name Church in 1875, and by 1887 Jesuit officials combined the two parishes into one church.
3257 S. Lake Dr. St. Francis, Wisconsin. Architect. Victor Schulte. NRHP reference No. 74000103. Added to NRHP. July 24, 1974. Saint Francis de Sales Seminary is a seminary for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, located in the Milwaukee suburb of St. Francis, Wisconsin. Its main building, called Henni Hall, is listed on the National ...
The arm of St. Jude Thaddeus, a sacred relic of the Roman Catholic Church, is coming to St. Sebastian Parish in Akron as part of a 100-stop pilgrimage in the United States.. One of the 12 apostles ...