125th Anniversary of Church--2016
125th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church of St. Stanislaus. 1891-2016
June 11, 2016
Come and join us in the celebration of 125 years of service in this special place of worship 
. The universal church calendar celebrates the anniversaries of the dedication of two Roman basilicas, St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran. This will be our local version of those celebrations. The church teaches us about the Mystical Body of Christ which is made up of those people who have gone before us and those of us still on earth. Think of the many people, some of whom are probably your ancestors, who may have been baptized, married or buried from this church. Their prayers will be joining with ours at the 5pm Mass on Saturday, June 11, 2016. The principal celebrant of the liturgy will be Bishop Roger Gries, OSB.
Following the Mass there will be a reception in the Social Center to meet and greet Bishop Roger.
The following is taken from Wikipedia
Present Church [ edit ]
In August, 1886, the foundation for the present church, 85 ft (26 m) by 200 ft (61 m), was begun, and the church enclosed during the following year. Locally made warm red brick and dressed stone were used in its construction. [3] (p19) Steadily it neared completion, until it was ready for dedication on Sunday, November 15, 1891, 1891. Boff, administrator of the diocese, performed the dedication ceremony. Houck wrote, it is the largest and one of the most beautiful churches in the diocese. It had two spires, each 232 ft (71 m) in height, and its architecture is pure Gothic. Houck wrote that it cost nearly $150,000, inclusive of altars, pews and statuary. [12] (pp286–287) Others wrote it cost $250,000.
In Polish Americans and their communities of Cleveland , historian John Grabowski describes the church, that it, "[...] was (and is) the largest Gothic church ever built by Catholics in Ohio and indeed, was second in size only to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York among the Gothic churches built by Catholics in America." Grabowski further describes the church as "[...] a symbol of a people who paid for it from money earned at the Newburgh Rolling Mills which, as we recall, was $7.25 per week." [25] (p221)
The walls were refrescoed in 1958. [3] (p21)
Relics [ edit ]
A visit to the church, November 13, 2010, arranged
as part of the Treasures of Heaven; Saints, Relics and Devotion
in Medieval Europe
exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art
, highlighted the church's art and relics
which range from a fragment of the True Cross
to a mitre
of Blessed John Paul II. [2]
The exhibition, from October 17, 2010, to January 17, 2011, featured over 135 objects from more than 40 institutions including the Vatican. [26]
It reminded parishioners, and Clevelanders, of these under-appreciated sacred works. [2]
The relic of the True Cross stands next to the Pietà near the entrance to the church. The six niches in the reredos of the high altar contain numerous relics including those of Ss. Bonaventure , Clare, the True Cross, Francis, Gemma, John Vianney , Pope Pius X and Stanislaus. In the shrine area you can see the combined relics of Ss. Francis, Anthony and Clare positioned centrally within the Franciscan altar. In the little niche beneath the ecce homo statue on the altar of the Passion is the reliquary, brought up from the lower church, containing relics of Ss. George , Gerard, James, Ignatius of Loyola , Julian, Ivan, Joseph of Leonessa , Lawrence, Louis, Nicasius, Sebastian , Theodosius and Thérèse of Lisieux. [2] [27]
