Honoring the History of Home
St. Robert Celebrates 100 Years of Worship
The parish plans to open its doors to the public for several centennial events this year.
One hundred years ago, Milwaukee resident Farrel Reilly paid a construction team $100 to build a one-room structure in a single day on what is now the southeast corner of North Maryland Avenue and East Capitol Drive. Reilly did not tell them what it would be used for, and it was only that evening that the community realized what he was building, when he added the final piece himself: a small wooden cross for the first St. Robert Parish. “I couldn’t risk being stopped before it was done,” he told the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1954, according to St. Robert's records, because the community was not supportive of having a church constructed on such a small budget. Four pastors later, the St. Robert Parish has grown into a powerful presence in the …
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CowDung
9:06 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Nice article. If anyone wants more info on the history of St. Robert and the surrounding area, they may want to attend this upcoming program. Historian John Gurda will be speaking on February 12th at St. Robert. http://www.strobert.org/special/libfile_files/media/1151.pdf more ›