Crawford County WI Archives Church Records.....St. Gabriel's Parish
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ST. GABRIEL'S PARISH—SECULAR CLERGY
Bishop Flasch

   The appointment in 1891 of Eev. A. Philip Kremer as pastor marks the return
of the secular clergy to the parish of St. Gabriel. An increase in the number of
diocesan priests had made it possible for Bishop Flasch of LaCrosse, who
succeeded Bishop Heiss in 1881, to relieve the Jesuits of the care of the
parish, and thus to allow them to devote their time more exclusively to the
increasing demands made upon them by the College.

   For seven years, Father Kremer exercised his pastoral duties at St.
Gabriel's, unassisted. Fortunately, the burden he had assumed, was lightened
somewhat by the erection of another parish in 1891, that of St. John Nepomucene,
a Bohemian congregation in charge of a Rev. George Kiefner. In the first year of
his pastorate, Father Kremer built the Columbian High School, which continued in
existence till 1908. The record would seem to show that during all his time as
pastor, he was seldom away from his parish. Later he was to manifest a like
devotedness to duty, when as vicar-general of the diocese he made his little
parish house at Genoa, Wisconsin, serve as his official headquarters for many
years. There too, in 1935, Father Kremer, exemplary priest and efficient
administrator, died at his post.

   Rev. Alphonsus Joseph Joerres succeeded Father Kremer as pastor in 1899.
Sickly from the outset, Father Joerres found the burden unequal to his strength,
and after a few years asked to be relieved. In 1907, Bishop Schwebach, who had
succeeded Bishop Flasch in the See of LaCrosse, finally acceded to his request
and sent to Prairie du Chien the Rev. Peter Becker.

[Engraving - ST. GABRIEL'S CHURCH—1836]



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Centennial History of St. Gabriel's Parish
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN WISCONSIN
1836       1936
DR. P. L. SCANLAN, M. D.


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