Chapel of St. Francis Xavier

The mission of Father Francis X. Pierz stood here, along with his log chapel of 1852 and his frame church of 1867, which was demolished in 1915. Stones that supported the original structures now support this stone, laid on Columbus Day in Minnesota's Centennial year 1958, when the state's Assemblies of 4th Degree Knights of Columbus began building a permanent chapel.

Minnesota · United States