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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.