Lentorama 2012: Know Your Diocese
Day 7: Diocese of Winona
Made up of most of southern Minnesota, it found a novel way to build up its population. The bishop in charge in 1877 bought over 100,000 acres of land and brought in settlers to farm. Not surprisingly, he tried to bring in Catholics, and managed to attract Irish and German immigrants under some pretty favorable terms.
Later, The Sisters of Saint Francis of the Congregation of our Lady of Lourdes would help create the Mayo Clinic, as they brought in the Mayo brothers to run a new hospital in the aftermath of a tornado in 1882.
28 February 2012
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