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St. Francis
Mass Times
Monday, Thursday & Friday: 8:00 am Join Us at: Wednesday: 9:00 am (when school is in session) 404 9th Street North Parish Office and Mail
St. Francis History
A fire destroyed this wooden building twenty years later, and the pastor, Monsignor Daniel Lynch, decided on a new site for the new church, Juniper and 9th, the site of the present St. Francis Church. Then on the night of March 9th, 1933, that church also burned to the ground. The afternoon of the fire, Don Ryan, a lawyer called his brother Clem and the trustees of the parish, Georg O’Brien and Joseph Krause, along with the pastor, Fr. Hogan, and immediately began to plan a new church. The project started on July 1st and was completed in 1934 for the cost of $60,000. This was an extraordinary accomplishment considering that this money was raised and the church built in the height of the Great Depression, and many of the parishioners were immigrants with little income. The new church was larger than the preceding one and able to seat 650 people and is still our church today.
A major capital campaign was held in 2009 to upgrade the school’s electrical, heating, and air conditioning systems plus build on a new entryway, library, teachers lounge, computer library and add a handicapped elevator.
Finally, in June of 2014 it was announced that there would be two clusters in the Brainerd area. St. Andrew & St. Mathias would be clustered together and St. Francis, All Saints and St. Thomas of the Pines in the other. We currently have two separate offices, one located at St. Andrews and the other just behind St. Francis Church.
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