Sacred Heart Church will celebrate the 125th anniversary of its parish with a Mass of Thanksgiving at 5 p.m. Sunday. A dinner will begin at 7 p.m. at the National Guard Armory.
The parish was created as an exclusively German-speaking congregation when 35 families petitioned Bishop Hogan for separation from St. Vincent Depaul, Sedalia’s first Catholic parish, a primarily Irish congregation.
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