St Stanislaus of Winona, MN officially made Basilica

...roll out the red carpet.... 
Today the parish church built with the nickels, dimes and faith of lumber workers and packing house men becomes one of the pope’s very own.

Long known locally as the Polish Cathedral, for more than a century, the Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Kostka has stood as testimony in brick and stone to the faith and pride of the Polish immigrants to Winona, and of their children and grandchildren.

These were the people Cardinal John Krol — the first Polish-American priest to become a cardinal — spoke of when he addressed the Winona Polish Heritage Society in 1978: “The Polish people have an independent spirit. ... The Polish people are long suffering. ... They have been instrumental in handing down their Polish heritage — traditionally God first and then country, not forgetting their roots.

“We have inherited this culture.”
continue at Winona Daily

I think I have some photos somewhere

http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2010/11/st-stanislaus-winona-mn.html

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