St Marys High School - Salute Yearbook (New Baltimore, MI)

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Pvlvn km Panorama . . . . On Christmas , December 25, 1854, some eight or nine hundred Poles from Silesia crowded reverently around a mas- sive oak tree on top of a hill near the junction of San Antonio and Cibolo rivers in southern Texas. Under that oak Father Leopold Moczygemba of the Franciscan Friars Minor Conven- tual celebrated the first Mass for Polish peasant folk on Amer- ican soil. Under that oak the Polish immigrants organized their first church dedicating it to the Immaculate Conception ninety years ago. Since that time, like the oak, they have spread their branches wide over America and sunk their roots deep into American soil, becoming an organic part of American soul and srnew . . .