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Home Town or Home Community:
Blumenfeld, SK
Our Story:
The Blumenfeld church is the original church in the district of Leader, Saskatchewan. The first German settlers came to the district from Romania in 1908; they built the church seven years later. Rev. Henry Kelz, OMI, with the help of his parishioners, built a grotto to Our Lady of Sorrows using far-away fieldstone. In it they placed a pieta statue. As a result of an August 15 meeting of the Catholics of Blumenfeld in 1934, it was decided to make annual pilgrimages to the site. The following year on August 5 they met again, this ...more Story
Related Links:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Western Development Museum
Contact:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Box 22076
Saskatoon SK S4A 1Y4
Canada
info@ourladyfoundation.org
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