Beacon Oct 2023

Page 4A THE BEACON October 2023
All Saints Bonds Community More than Just on Sundays
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where one attended mass but
where generation upon generation
was raised.
The other hat I wear is that I
work for All Saints Parish and
have for the last eight years.
I was thinking the other day
of all that change that I have
seen in the last eight years and
how far we have come since
that sad day when it was announced
doors would close. I
wanted to speak out about the
good I have seen since that day
and how blessed we are at All
Saints that although technically
our churches closed, the doors
remain wide open. We are so
fortunate because I know there
is deep pain for others whose
parishes haven’t been so lucky.
All Saints is an anomaly of
sorts as we are now one parish
with four campuses.
St. Joseph, St. John the
Baptist, St. Martin, and
St. Paul, all church buildings
actively celebrate mass
throughout the week and on
weekends. The church has
grown tremendously and All
Saints has welcomed a new
pastor in addition to Father
Meyer as we now are blessed
with Father John Hollowell.
Father Hollowell is also a
survivor of brain cancer. He
recently ran a few local 5k’s
in Dearborn County, which is
pretty inspiring considering
all that he has been through.
St. John the Baptist Church
will be celebrating its twohundredth
birthday in 2024
and soon plans for a big
celebration will be underway.
The present-day church for St.
John the Baptist is thought to
be the fourth structure that existed
to host religious services
Dearborn County Catholics sent seventy pilgrims to Rome, Fatima, and Lisbon Portugal for World Youth Day. The group
of youth, young adults, and chaperones were led by Pastor Fr Jonathan Meyer and represented the parishes of All
Saints, St. Lawrence, St. Mary’s, and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
for area Catholics since the
early 1800’s. Irish and English
Catholics first settled in
the area originally named the
McKenzie Settlement.
It is said that Henry McKenzie
settled in what is now Dover.
He was the first merchant in
town and also opened the first
post office there. The town
prospered due to the construction
of the Whitewater Canal
and the Lawrenceburg-Indianapolis
Railroad. By 1855
Dover had several stores including
two blacksmith shops,
two shoemakers, a lumber
business, and a saloon.
St. John’s used to have a
grade school. Sisters of St.
Francis were sent from the
covenant at Oldenburg to teach
the pupils in 1855. Historical
records show that St. John’s
Catholic School was established
in 1837, the same year
the school at St. Paul was also
established. In 1885 approximately
ninety students were
enrolled. In 1865 a new brick
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school building was erected
to replace the old log house
previously used. While St.
John’s and St. Paul’s schools
are both closed, St. John’s has
a thriving preschool headed up
by the wonderful Miss Sally!
Many area children have been
taught by her and now send
their children there.
St. Martin Church in Yorkville
was founded in 1850 and
St. Paul in New Alsace was
founded in 1833. Down the
road in St. Leon, St. Joseph
Church was founded in 1841.
Stepping back into that time
during the mid-1800s Cholera,
an infection of the small
intestine causing severe illness
and at that time almost
certain death, was extremely
prevalent in our area. Cholera
was a dreaded disease and
it had taken a heavy toll on
people here as many lives
were lost. During those dark
days, the men of St. Joseph’s
congregation gathered inside
the walls of their log church
St. John the Baptist Church photo circa 1900.
and vowed to honor St. Joseph
each year on March 19,
his feast day, if their families
would be spared of this terrible
disease. And they were,
as not one single death from
within the congregation was
recorded as being a result of
Cholera even though it was
so prevalent in the area. St.
Joseph’s Feast Day is still celebrated
each year with mass
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followed by an ice cream
social afterward.
All Saints plans to open a
café and meeting house this
October. The idea for a coffee
ministry started back in
2021 by the All Saints Purpose
Planning Committee. It
aims to be a place of radical
welcome and fellowship for
people of all faiths and all
walks of life. The new coffee
shop is located in the stately
brick mainstay on the corner
of State Road 1 and North
Dearborn Road. It was built
in 1830 with construction on
it being completed in 1839.
It started as a general store
and in 1880 it was converted
into a brewery. Current owner
Kristy Alig shares, “It would
remain operating in that
capacity for the next hundredplus
years. It has been several
restaurants in the past two
decades, including Bambino’s
Pizza, Fischer’s Bar and Grill,
and most recently Stout’s
Brickhouse BBQ. It has also
been coined the name of Wall
Tavern, Dutch’s, Hammerle’s,
The Horseshoe, or The Shoe
just to name a few.”
Ms. Alig shared with me the
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