Assumption Chapel
Grasshopper Chapel, 1877 Roman Catholic church in MinnesotaAssumption Chapel, also known as the Grasshopper Chapel, is a Roman Catholic Marian shrine, "Calvary Hill", and pilgrimage chapel. The shrine stands upon one of the tallest hills in Stearns County, and which is known locally as, meaning "Mary's Mountain", on the outskirts of Cold Spring, Minnesota. The chapel stands in a region of Minnesota largely settled in the 1850s by German-American Catholics who were invited to the area by Slovenian-American missionary Fr. Francis Xavier Pierz and which remained, until shortly before the Second World War, a major center for the speaking of the German language in the United States.
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