History of Nemaha County, Kansas . chbuilding was completed. The original building was 24x52 feet. The firstservices were held in the new church August 3, 1902, and the organ fromthe school building was borrowed for the service. The new church wasdedicated August 27, 1902, by the Rt. Rev. L. M. Fink, , then bishopof the Leavenworth diocese, now deceased, assisted by Rev. P Boniface Verheyen, O. S. B., of Atchison, and Rev. P. Charles, O. S. B., of Seneca;Rev. Anthony Baar, O. S. B., of St. Marys parish, at St. Benedicts, andRev. Father Edwin, O. S. B., the parish pastor. In the fall of 190
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . chbuilding was completed. The original building was 24x52 feet. The firstservices were held in the new church August 3, 1902, and the organ fromthe school building was borrowed for the service. The new church wasdedicated August 27, 1902, by the Rt. Rev. L. M. Fink, , then bishopof the Leavenworth diocese, now deceased, assisted by Rev. P Boniface Verheyen, O. S. B., of Atchison, and Rev. P. Charles, O. S. B., of Seneca;Rev. Anthony Baar, O. S. B., of St. Marys parish, at St. Benedicts, andRev. Father Edwin, O. S. B., the parish pastor. In the fall of 1903, the parochial school was completed and the firstterm began September 18, 1903, with an enrollment of twenty-seven boys HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 307 and fourteen girls. In August, 1905, another room was added to theschool, and living rooms for the parish teachers. At the present term ofSt. Bedes parochial school there are sixt3-one boys and forty-one girlsenrolled. Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, , then bishop of Leavenworth, now. ST. BEDES CHURCH, KELLY, KANS. 308 HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY of Kansas City, confirmed the first class of nineteen, on June 19, first two years Father Edwin lived at the college in Atchison andmade weekly trips to minister to the parish. For a time he then livedin a room of the church, but in May, 1906, at a meeting of the men of theparish, it was decided to build a parish house. Instead, a residence andlots were purchased and has since been used as a parish house. The first mission was held beginning August 29, 1906, by Rev. Vin-cent Trost, C. F. M., of Louisville, Ky. On March 8, 1909, the Uni-versalist church building in Kelly was bought by St. Bedes parish andadded to the north end of the church building, together with a ten-footaddition. On January 12, 1913, the church building caught fire and burned tothe ground, only a part of the church fixtures being saved. At a massmeeting of the parish members it was decided to build a new church e
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