Summary
Holy Cross Church held its centennial celebration and annual Homecoming in August 1960. The program combined religious services, cemetery prayers and grave blessing, former-pastor gatherings, a rectory open house, a roast-beef dinner, a float parade, and a dance.
Evidence and limits
The August issue reports the celebration and its program but does not provide attendance, a full parish history, or independent records for every scheduled activity. Its statement that the parish was established in 1860 by Bishop Frederic Baraga is preserved as newspaper evidence rather than silently expanded into a complete institutional chronology.
Open questions
- Which parish registers, centennial book, photographs, and cemetery records document the celebration and parish history?
See also
- Holy Cross Parish announces its centennial Homecoming schedule (1960)
- Holy Cross Catholic Church
- Holy Cross Catholic Church building
- Holy Cross Cemetery
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, August 1960, “Holy Cross Church Celebrates Its Centennial This Month.”Reports the centennial services: August 7 Mass for deceased parish members, cemetery prayers and grave blessing, and Holy Hour; August 10 former pastors and neighboring priests, Solemn High Mass, priests' dinner, and rectory open house; and August 14 Homecoming Mass presided over by Bishop Allen J. Babcock, Christian Brothers singing, roast-beef dinner, float parade, and dance. It repeats the source's 1860 foundation claim without treating it as a complete parish history.