January 24. the community will gather to commemorate this anniversary and I am pleased to have been asked to participate. His Excellency. the Most Reverend James C. Timlin. D.D. of the Archdiocese of Scranton will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving to begin the festivities. The church was founded by a group of Polish immigrants. mostly peasant farmers from Galicia. who settled in the Wyoming Valley to work in the coal mines. Toward the end of 1898. a group who had been attending another local church. decided to construct a Polish Roman Catholic Church in Larksville. They formed a committee to meet with the Bishop and obtained permission to begin construction.
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