JoAnn, Bill, and Janis To add to your information on the Sandusky Catholic Churches: St Mary's was established as a German church. You HAD to be of German descent to belong. My Mother belonged but changed over to Holy Angels when she married Dad, who was a member of Holy Angels. She would never be allowed to rejoin St Mary's. However I could have if I desired to. It was in the very early 1840's that the large influx of German Catholics petitioned the Bishop for a church of their own. They did continue to worship at Holy Angel's until their own small church was erected on the southeast corner of Decatur & Jefferson Streets in 1854. The present St Mary's Church took from 1873-1880 to build. Holy Angels & Sts Peter & Pauls were not "ethnic" churches and the city was divided with Shelby St as the dividing line. Those living west of Shelby went to Holy Angels, and those on the east to Sts Peter & Paul's. That is why even though the first 25 years of my life were lived in about a 12 block area, I was baptized at Holy Angel's, First Confession, Cummunion, & Confirmation at St P & P, 8th Grade graduation, marriage & out 1st child baptized at HA, next two children baptized at St P & P, etc. The dividing line was much ignored in the 1970's and finally abolished sometime in the 1980's or so. Carol Steele member Holy Angel's Catholic Church --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by LRBCG.COM, Inc.]