Wisconsin's Grandest Church - Historical Basilica of St Josaphat

[@Frisbeeninja2]

I honestly can't believe you only have a few hundred views on these videos, they are great and informative! Keep up the good work!

[@mrs6968]

Right tho

[@jeffpawlinski3210]

I grew up just two blocks from The Basilica of St. Josaphat and I attended grade school there from K5 through 8th Grade. Also, I was an Alter Boy there from 2nd Grade through my Senior Year of High School at the neighboring Catholic High School to St. Stanislaus, Notre Dame High. I've been to the top of the St. Josaphat's Dome and to the adjoining twin spires. I'm the Grandchild of Polish immigrants and would not trade my childhood and lifelong Milwaukee neighborhood friendships for all the gold in the world!

[@bigtub1101]

Yesterday when my grandpa was picking me up from my dorm we passed the Stanislaus church on the way home and he shared a story that he heard from I think his childhood friends or mother. On the top of the building between the two spires is a big bell, and they rang the bell when I think the transubstantiation happened (I can’t remember exactly what he said, all I know is that the bell was rung near the end of the service) and the bell rang for the whole neighborhood and the kids called it the potato bell because it told them that their parents would be home from church in ten minutes and they needed to put the potatoes on for supper. Thanks for this awesome video!

[@placesofthepast]

That’s wonderful, thanks for sharing!

[@mrs6968]

Great story thanks for sharing

[@lcracalcraca9425]

Greetings from Colombia. Beautiful city, I have it in my list to my next vacation (I hope haha)

[@mgweir3252]

This is a beautiful church. I grew up a couple of miles away from it. It looks like it should be in Europe. I highly recommend a tour if you are in the area.

[@mrs6968]

I love this churches architecture so much that I legit bought a vinyl record from a local thrift shop just because this was on its cover yet I was always under the impression that it was shipped brick by brick from across seas to be reconstructed however when you brought up that Italian Polish German English fact just goes to show why they always called milwaukee a great melting pot. Thank you for all your uploads!!!

[@placesofthepast]

Yes, Milwaukee is an amazing city!

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

Great church in Milwaukee Wisconsin great history and traditions.

[@muddywisconsin]

Impressive video, I drive past that church every other day and always wondered what the inside looks like, thank you for this

[@beverlyplonski-mcgavock3512]

Milwaukee native living in California now, I LOVE these videos celebrating my beloved home city and state. Awesome job!!

[@placesofthepast]

So glad you like them, thanks for the comment!

[@pamh3595]

Great video!!! Looking forward to more!

[@lizg1918]

This is great!

[@user-bm8hb4ci6h]

Wonderful!

[@benedictchinweuba5820]

oh that is brilliant!

[@robertdanner635]

Really beautiful video Andy! It was super interesting hearing the history behind this. Thanks for sharing this with the world. I'm a music composition student from UW-Milwaukee and this summer, The Basilica of Saint Josaphat was kind enough to let me film a choir singing a piece I wrote with the text of the Latin Saint Michael prayer. However, I wanted the video to show off the building too. Is there any way you'd be willing to send me the footage so I could put some of it in the video I'm making? Thank you!

[@placesofthepast]

Hey man, thanks for the compliments! I'd think about sharing the footage, though I can't seem to find where I stored it...

[@jimorr820]

St. Stanislaus in Pittsburgh predates this one and is also a polish Ethnic church. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Pittsburgh, also a polish ethnic church, is built in what's called Polish Cathedral architectural style, that is the exterior is a replica of St. Peters in Rome.

[@anahatatutu]

MKE has an older Stanislaus, actually, both parish and church - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stanislaus_Catholic_Church_(Milwaukee)

[@chetanathneupane2200]

Nice, subscribed.

[@joshuakeller7525]

my parents used to live a few blocks south of the church on South 8th Street

[@anahatatutu]

Played in there and used to play at Stari Grad just down the block

[@peggysaindon8281]

Hi, Andy.

[@placesofthepast]

Greetings!

[@ceasergert2780]

Wow

[@bigcatproductions2789]

The people who fought and died for the Unions 🇺🇸🇵🇱

[@maxanisimov]

Basilica of St. Josaphat is located within class C airspace. Hope you had an authorization to fly a drone there…

[@placesofthepast]

Sure did!

[@orangemanbad]

Makes me so sad to see our Catholic faith having been disposed of in 1969 and replaced with this new baptist style church!

[@monty2020-i5d]

To bad they do the Novie Mass in such a beautiful church. Such a waste.

[@josephdonalde]

th st stanislaus polish latin mass is th best --yer wis cathedrl now is modernist heretic st jn th evangelist

[@nhmikey1]

Found not built. We couldn't build this today, let alone 100 years ago with horse and buggies. I'm learning the truth, so should you.

[@placesofthepast]

I think it’s more that we wouldn’t build this today, rather than couldn’t, since the achievement of this building is artistic more than purely structural. Our standards of beauty has eroded somewhat, look at a modern art museum vs Renaissance art for example. And you don’t see the same cultural drive to invest in beauty in church buildings.

[@anahatatutu]

Right... and Notre Dame was built with space lasers.

[@anahatatutu]

Completely... I'm noticing these conspiracy theories about US 19th-century architecture being "found" from a prior civilization. Looney tunes stuff. We actually had better artisans for this kind of construction back then than we do now, but it is all still doable. Our priorities have changed and we build things that they couldn't have, not the other way around. @@placesofthepast

[@jonathanstensberg]

Bro, you need to look up the new monastery being built with stone by hand right now in Wyoming. You can go there and see it happening with you own eyes. They’d probably even let you help if you asked nicely. People in the past did incredible things because they were forced by their circumstances to think hand and work hard. We find it difficult to imagine how they did these things because the ease and convenience of modern life limits our imagination and determination to do great things.

[@ShutTheMuckUp]

No, YOU couldn't build this. Smart people can, and obviously did. Maybe lay off the flat earth videos for a while...