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St. Peter's Catholic Church in Mendota Heights [a] is the oldest church in continuous use in the U.S. state of Minnesota.Established as a community in 1840, a log church was built in 1842, and the still-standing historic church was constructed in 1853.
With Calvary Cemetery running out of room, Resurrection cemetery was established in 1940. [1] Archbishop John Gregory Murray consecrated the cemetery on June 30, 1940. [2] With land in Minnesota rapidly being purchased, and seeing the need to secure land for Catholic burials, Archbishop Austin Dowling had purchased 350 acres of prairie in Mendota for $400,000 some years prior.
Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Winona in 1889, taking southern Minnesota from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul. [13] While he was an empire builder, Ireland was not without controversy; the author of The Church and Modern Society (1897), Ireland opposed the use of foreign languages in American Catholic churches and parochial schools ...
James Michael Reardon (August 31, 1872 – December 12, 1963) was a Canadian-American Catholic priest and professor of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul.A prominent churchman in the first half of the 20th century, he was rector of the Basilica of Saint Mary from 1921 until his death and wrote the definitive history of the diocese.
On June 8, 1946, Shannon was ordained to the Catholic priesthood for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. In 1955 he received his doctorate in philosophy in American studies at Yale University. At 35, he was named president of the College of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, and was the youngest priest to hold that position. Shannon was a ...
Saint Peter's Church (Mendota, Minnesota) Sibley Historic Site This page was last edited on 30 May 2024, at 10:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Harry Joseph Flynn (May 2, 1933 – September 22, 2019) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1995 to 2008. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette from 1989 to 1994.
Dakota County. The earliest European settlement occurred on what is now Picnic Island, in 1819, where Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called "St. Peter's Cantonment" or "New Hope;" there materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling, to be built on the bluff on the north side of the Minnesota River. [2]
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