Join us May 24 at 1:00 for two tours of two beautiful, historic Erie churches.
Our tour begins at St Patrick Church, 130 E. 4th Street. The first Mass celebrated in the church was Christmas Day 1906. The building is known worldwide for their life-size hand carved wooden Stations of the Cross which were restored in the mid-2000s, and the massive hand-painted windows and amazing column free architecture. Restoration of the church, as well as the rectory, began in 2012 and was completed a little over a year ago.
The second tour, led by Monsignor Urbaniak will take us through St. Stanislaus Church at 507 E. 12th Street. By 1883, there were 85 Polish families in the city of Erie, and they petitioned the Most Reverend Tobias Mullen, then Bishop of Erie, to help them create their own church. Two years later, construction of the new church was finished and dedicated to St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr. Work on the second and current St. Stanislaus began in September 1895. On Sunday, September 25, 1898, the Most Reverend Bishop John E. Fitzmaurice formally dedicated the present St. Stanislaus Church. The original pipe organ from 1899 is still used every week.