Mr. Speaker. on October 21. Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Indianapolis will celebrate its 75th anniversary jubilee. In 1905. devout Slovenes petitioned the auxuliary bishop of Indianapolis for the formation of a new parish for nonEnglishspeaking immigrants of Indianapolis. The Slovenes were expected to find their own parish because none of the clergy in the diocese was of Slovene background. In 1906. Father Joseph Lavic arrived and celebrated the first mass for 720 parishioners. Those parishioners soon began the excavation of the site of a new church structure. in the heart of the Slovene neighborhood. On October 21. 1906. the first cornerstone was laid.
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