St. Mary, Millersville

The Fourth Station of the Cross, Jesus Meets His Mother.

Holy Water

At the entrance to St. Mary's church, Millersville.

St. Mary, Millersville

Above, "Jesus is Stripped of His Garments." The Stations of the Cross at Millersville are paintings from Cologne, Germany, according to the parish history.

The church was dedicated in 1921.

The architectural style is Flemish-Gothic.

Nativity window above the main altar. The parish was first called "the Nativity church of Greensburg" in 1859. (A road nearby is Greensburg Pike.)

Many of the pews are from the previous church building.

Just north of the church is a new winery, Chateau Tebeau. If you look in the photo above, you can see the steeple in the middle above the grape vines. There is a limestone quarry across the road, and limestone makes for happy grapes (so I've read).

Millersville St. Mary Cemetery

A beautiful cemetery, with old cedar trees planted in rows throughout. Surrounding the cemetery are pastures and farms.

This cross was erected in 1891; the cemetery was dedicated in 1887. Previous burials from the parish are at Ludwig Cemetery.


The Lehman family marker.

The Organ in Church Design

In the 1957 book "The Organ in Church Design" by Joseph Blanton, there are photos of two churches in the Diocese of Toledo. Above is the organ at Sacred Heart church in East Toledo (Renisch organ from 1912).

Above is a Holtcamp organ at St. Mary's in Millersville.

Ludwig Cemetery, Sandusky County

Ludwig Catholic Cemetery was the original cemetery for Millersville St. Mary's parish, from 1857 to 1887; many of the tombstones are in German. The cemetery is located on County Road 12 in Jackson Township, not far from Bettsville.

"Little Missionaries"

Some photos from the "The Little Missionary" magazine, published by the Society of the Divine Word. Sorry, no names were listed with the photos.
(Millersville photo from May, 1925.)

November, 1924.

St. Mary, Millersville

The St. Joseph is particularly good.

St. Mary, Millersville

St. Mary, Millersville

I just recieved these, by e-mail, from a gentleman whose second-great-grandparents were founding members of the congregation. The windows look like they were good.
My source also sent some information from Mossing. The church was built in 1859, at a cost of $1,800.00. At the time, it was 36x50, but it was enlarged to a length of 95 feet, in 1882. That cost $5,000.00, showing that inflation is nothing new. Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland rededicated it on May 6, 1884.

This is very good. I like the side altars.

It was torn down to build the present church, so the pictures are from before 1920.