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Four years after ground was broken on Essentia Health’s transformative Vision Northland project, the replacement St. Mary’s Medical Center is set to welcome its first patients on Sunday, July 30.

St. Joseph’s Orphanage opened in 1908. Throughout the years, the origins surrounding a certain old building overlooking the

Elmer Joe Pavlas The gregarious, sweet, and tenderhearted Elmer Joe Pavlas was born March 1, 1938, to Louis and Mary Pavlas in their home in Praha, Texas. Though not confirmed, it is believed by many that at the time of his birth, Elmer came out introducing himself to the doctor, telling a joke, and laughing.

While oblates have been around almost as long as the Rule of St. Benedict itself, lay oblates now outnumber monks and women religious.

There is, in Perry County, a community called New Dixie. Such a name is not so surprising in the rural South, but the people who settled this place arrived long after the Civil War and were of German or Swiss extraction. And the home they created originally bore the name of a medieval Benedictine monk.

The remaining work on the largest private investment in Duluth's history includes completion of construction details, installation of equipment and furniture, and staff training.

“She was a little bit of a rebel,” her niece said.

Benedictine Living Community-Red Wing, part of the Benedictine, a leading faith-based provider of senior care and living services in the Midwest, received the top high-performing recognition in the short-stay rehabilitation

How did a 50-foot labyrinth come to sit next to the main office building of the Forest Hill Cemetery? Who put it there and why?

“Gratitude makes it that everything is enough," said Carolyn Ripp, of Nest Wellness Studio in Cloquet.