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Fr. Aloysius Schmitt & Pearl Harbor

Fr. Aloysius Schmitt & Pearl Harbor

Dec 6, 2021 | 20th century, episodes, great plains, hawaii, iowa, military, priest

Navy Chaplain Father Aloysius Schmitt had just finished Mass aboard the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He died helping men to escape.

The Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches

The Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches

Sep 6, 2021 | 19th century, 20th century, episodes, german, laity, midwest, ohio, places and buildings, priest

In the 19th century, German Catholics immigrated to western Ohio where the Precious Blood fathers built many cross-tipped churches in a small area

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