Visitation Monastery, Parkside Boulevard

Visitation Monastery, Parkside Boulevard

SS. Peter and Paul, Attica

The original SS. Peter and Paul church in Attica, built in 1882. The current church was built in 1968.

St. Mary Norwalk

Post Card from 1910 I was given to scan. Check out the postage!

Visitation Monastery, Parkside Boulevard

St. Joseph, Plymouth

Sorry about photo quality - it's a scan of a copy of a reprint (of a book from 1896). This is the first St. Joseph church in Plymouth, built in 1872. Apparently this served the parish until the current church was built in 1961.

Visitation Monastery, Parkside Boulevard

I was hoping to get a few quick pictures, but the sisters are more hospitable, talkative, and thoroughly delightful than I ever imagined. I have an invitation to go back and I'll give it the full treatment then. Jewel-like is the phrase I'd use. This is more of Joseph Huber's work.

St. Alphonsus Project

Not sure if I've mentioned this before...but i am creating a website dedicated to St. Alphonsus's history. This is for my "senior project" that i unfortunetly have to waste my time with in order to leave the wonderful school i attend. In this website I hope to present as many pictures, stories, texts and other information as I can regarding St. Alphonsus. Past present and future. It may end up being i give them a brand new website in the process.

If anyone has any information regarding St. Alphonsus. Please let me know!!

Precious Blood Monastery @ St. Gaspar

So just down the road a bit is St. Michael's Cemetery. (St. Gaspar's was St. Michael's before the diocese changed everything a few years back). In the cemetery is a section devoted to the dead sisters from the Precious blood Monastery next door to the church.

If you can't read what the stone says...here it is:
"The missionaries of the precious blood established in Italy in 1815, and the Sister's of the precious blood established in Switzerland in 1834, began their ministry in America in 1844 in Peru Ohio. In 1845, Swiss born Father Francis de Sales Brunner, a missionary of the Precious Blood, bough 80 acres of land near St. Michael's church in Thompson Township in Seneca County. This mission center cared for the spiritual needs of the immigrants in Huron, Seneca, Crawford and Richland Counties. A brick house and chapel were erected and dedicated to St. Aloysius to serve as a retreat house for priests and brothers and a seminary for students.

On December 6, 1845, twenty-eight sisters began perpetual adoration in the newly built convent dedicated to Mary of the Angels. In addition to the ministry of prayer, the sisters directed an orphanage, taught in the local school, worked in the fields and garden, and provided housing and meals in the convent/Pilgrim house for the visitors who came to the nearby Sorrowful mother shrine.

Later the Thompson Convent and Mission were referred to as Frank and then as Marywood. Due to changing needs and growth in other areas, the retreat house for priests and brothers and the seminary were closed. In 1951, the sisters also responded to the changing needs by selling their convent and surrounding property."

(More on the Peru Ohio part of it later)

Above: The convent in it's glory days

Above: the list of the sisters buried at the Cemetery. I would venture a guess they spoke German all the way to the close of the convent. ("schw." in front of all their names. Schwester is German for Sister)

Obviously the building is NOT in good condition. Since it is on private property and is surrounded by a fence, i did not venture in there. What a shame...

St. Gaspar

This church is closer to me than i think it is. The next nice day I have off i Believe i will try to get inside and explore. It was locked the day i visited. I don't know anyone here, so i didn't go up to the rectory to ask.

I just can't get enough of the spire! This is one church I long to go belfry climbing in.

The brickwork is also very good.

The Back end of the priest's house (or i assume the rectory) Or i could be totally wrong.

This building is what i believe to have been a school or workshop maybe. Currently it is used for storage. In the next picture you can see how poor of shape the building is in. Everything is very old on the grounds here. It's very nice to see such things.

That building may also have had something to do with the large building next door (which I'll get to on the next post)

Little Flower

Even tarted up for the holidays ( And I use the term deliberately ) it still looks like a high school auditorium furnished from WalMart and Ikea.

New posts

I stopped by St. Gaspar Marywood and the shrine today. Although St. Gaspar's wasn't open, and people in the chapel at the shrine prohibited me from taking many pictures....i do have enough interesting things to make a few posts. Expect them soon!

St. Peter, Mansfield

Saw this book cover on a certain popular online auction site. Awesome graphic.

St. Hedwig

A detail of the ambo.

St. Hedwig

Immaculate Conception, Old South End

I spent a day in the rectory attic last month and turned up a treasure trove of old photographs. This is one of the side altars before the fire of 1920. When I have time, I'll go back and try to get better copies of the best ones.

St. Mary Norwalk

St. Alphonsus Peru

This is a newspaper from St. Alphonsus from the year 1897. It is in German. (The settlement was a German settlement) Below is a picture of the first pastor's house. It was torn down a replaced by the current one.