Planning the next cathedralSourced
He built a cathedral,
then said he had none.
Saint Paul's second cathedral opened in Minnesota in 1851, with worship space on the second floor of a shared school building. Bishop Joseph Crétin considered it inadequate and began planning a third by 1853.
Finished, yet already
not enough.
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