History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . first residentpriest. During his short stay of fivemonths he said Mass in the FraternityHall with an old fashioned piano for thealtar. He had started the collections fora new church but was recalled by the Or-dinary and replaced in June 1898 by Fa-ther John Burns. In course of the sum-mer he built the church and had it dedi-cated by Bishop Vertin to the SacredH
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . first residentpriest. During his short stay of fivemonths he said Mass in the FraternityHall with an old fashioned piano for thealtar. He had started the collections fora new church but was recalled by the Or-dinary and replaced in June 1898 by Fa-ther John Burns. In course of the sum-mer he built the church and had it dedi-cated by Bishop Vertin to the SacredHeart. The venerable old missionary wasrelieved of duty on July 21, 1898 and thetask of furnishing the church left to ayounger successor. In the Ijeginning ofAugust Rev. Henry A. Buchholtz be- came the third regular pastor. His youth-ful energies enabled him to fill the posi-tion with more than an ordinary tact. Inshort order he paid the outstanding onethousand dollar debt, frescoed the church,furnished it with new pews, altars,stained glass-windows, vestments andutensils, and besides built a pastoral resi-dence. His recall to another field of labor,November 8, 1904 was generally regret-ted by the people of all classes. The pres-. CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, COOK S MILL. ent pastor, Rev. John Kraker, came tothe parish in November 1904. To the fur-nishing of the church he has added a valu-able pipe organ. The church property, besides the build-ings, consists of six lots, in the Wallridgeaddition to Munising. Two were donatedby the Munising R. R. C. and four pur-chased by Father Buchholtz. The congregation is composed of sixtyFrench, fifty Irish, twenty Polish and tenGerman families. 382 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF This parish, aUhough last in order, isnot the last one formed. We have ratherfollowed the geographical lay of the par-ishes, although we have taken into con-sideration, as much as was consistent withthis rule, the time of their formation, be-cause we thought that parish
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