Barnesville Assumption Church at 307 Front Steet North, Barnesville, MN 56514 US - St. Cecilia's Catholic Church, Sabin, MN

In 1910 Fr. Edmund Basil of Dilworth, MN began to minister to about 15 families in the Sabin area. Mass was celebrated once a month in the Village School building. In 1913 Fr. Weisser supervised the construction of the first small church called St. Cecilia's. In 1941 with Fr. Arden as pastor, a basement was dug and a sacristy was added to the church. At that time St. Cecilia's became a mission of St. Joseph's Church in Moorhead, MN. In 1948 St. Cecilia's became a mission of a new parish call St. Francis deSales in north Moorhead, with Fr. Ketter as pastor. 1951 brought them back to St. Joseph's and 1954 again to St. Francis deSales. many priests came and went. A fire gutted the church on October 31, 1976. Following the fire parishioners met in the Sabin Community Hall for Mass. In 1991 to the present St. Cecilia's became a mission parish of Assumption, Barnesville, MN. Since the building fo the present church in 1978, St. Cecilia's has had the kitchen remodeled in 2000; 7 new classrooms, enlargements of the gathering space and kitchen, a new furnace along with painting and new carpet throughout the church in 2003. St. Cecilia's is presently blessed with 90 families!

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