Article content In 1923, the parishioners of St. Scholastica in the Saskatchewan community of Burr stole their church. Not in a metaphorical or allegorical sense. Their church had been taken over by a new diocese and they didn’t approve. So they picked it up and spirited it back into the jurisdiction of their old abbacy. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Buy, borrow, or steal: How communities have kept Saskatchewan churches alive and on the move Back to video “They did it — as I can understand it — without asking,” says amateur historian Ed Novecosky. “This decision and action was taken by the parishioners … but there could have been a wink-wink, nudge-nudge from the priest. You never know.”