Dr. Johan van Parys, Managing Director of Ministries, and Heather Craig, Basilica Archivist, discuss the Ninth Eucharistic Congress held in St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1941, followed by the Consecration…
MoreI usually start my tours of our beautiful Basilica by recalling that on Christmas Day, 1903 Archbishop Ireland announced his vision to build a Pro-Cathedral in Minneapolis that would be…
MoreOpera week at The Basilica is here! In this video, Johan van Parys, Ph.D. discusses Puccini’s Suor Angelica (“Sister Angelica”) with David Lefkowich, the Artistic Director of Out of the…
MoreIt is not every day that one hears the words Opera and Basilica mentioned in one and the same sentence. And yet, that is exactly what is about to happen…
MoreA few weeks ago, on Good Friday Let the Oppressed Go Free, a sculpture by world renowned Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz was installed on the plaza in front of The…
MoreGrowing up in Belgium in the 1970s I remember that everything slowed down during Holy Week. Given the time that has passed I may romanticize things, but it was almost…
MoreWhen the allied troops moved through Cologne, Germany at the end of World War II they found the following text written on a basement wall by someone who hid there…
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