THE EARLY HISTORY OF PANNA MARIA, TEXAS ... - Repositories
THE EARLY HISTORY OF PANNA MARIA, TEXAS ... - Repositories
THE EARLY HISTORY OF PANNA MARIA, TEXAS ... - Repositories
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6th of May he and his brother, John, were already<br />
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inspecting the stone for its construction.<br />
Due to illness among the workers and difficulty<br />
in securing necessary building supplies, the work on the<br />
church took place in several stages.<br />
The first stage<br />
began in June 1855.<br />
Father Leopold entered into a contract<br />
at this time with Mr. Pauli, a German master mason from<br />
San Antonio, for the construction of the stonework.<br />
However,<br />
because of illness among his masons, Pauli was able<br />
to complete the walls to a height of only fifteen of their<br />
planned twenty feet.<br />
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several weeks.<br />
At this point work stopped for<br />
While work on the church was interrupted, a most<br />
exciting event occurred in Panna Maria.<br />
The second group<br />
of Polish immigrants arrived from Upper Silesia.<br />
immigrants left Upper Silesia in September 1855.<br />
These<br />
When<br />
they passed the city of Wroclaw, the newspaper Gwiazdka<br />
Cieszynska remarked:<br />
On the 26th of September, there passed through<br />
Wroclaw a group of Polish peasants, the group<br />
consisting of 700 persons from Upper Silesia,<br />
who are leaving for Texas in America. The<br />
picture of these people, who are depopulating<br />
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Johann Moczigemba to Relatives and Friends, May<br />
13, 1855, Regency of Opole Collection.<br />
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Kruszka, p. 369.
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