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 . WATERSMEET, MICHIGAN. him of the loyal support of the suitable plans Father Barthsubmitted them for approbation to thebishop who was pleased to give his sanc-tion to the project. No time was lostbreaking the ground and on the 24th ofSeptember 1900 the corner stone was laidby Bishop Eis with an impressive solem-nity, amidst of a great concourse o
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 . WATERSMEET, MICHIGAN. him of the loyal support of the suitable plans Father Barthsubmitted them for approbation to thebishop who was pleased to give his sanc-tion to the project. No time was lostbreaking the ground and on the 24th ofSeptember 1900 the corner stone was laidby Bishop Eis with an impressive solem-nity, amidst of a great concourse ofpeople. Throughout the fall and follow-ing spring the work was carried on withsuch success that the 22nd of May couldbe set for the dedication. It was a galaday for Stephenson. Surrounded by 328 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF many diocesan priests and clerical friendsof the pastor from the neighboring dio-cese, Bishop Eis dedicated the new churchto the Most Precious Blood. The church is built of solid brick upona stone foundation, calculated to seat fourhundred people. The style is Gothic andhas cost complete twenty-six thousanddollars, including the altars and otherfurniture. Of the sum only ten thousand. ST. Josephs church, wakefield, .micii. remained unpaid at the time of dedicationwhich speaks volumes for the generoussacrifices of the people and the untiringefforts of the pastor. One of the fore-most workers for the success of the un-dertaking at the same time most gener-ous, was Mr. Paul Perrizo, Jr., of Dag-gett. Stephenson parish has in the neighbor- hood of three hundred families who arein the main English speaking, but thereare Belgians, both Walloon and Flemish,Canadians, Germans, Slovenians, Italians,Poles, Indians and Bohemians. English,German and French languages only areused in the pulpit. By the parish is un-derstood the incorporated villages ofStephenson and Daggett with the vil-lage of Ingalls and the rich farming coun-try adjacent. Dagget and Talbot to theNorth, W
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