Swiecicki, Edward

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Swiecicki, Edward

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In 1959, Edward Swiecicki and his brother knights of St. Josaphat Council # 4138 of the Knights of Columbus, first committed to assist Fr. Philip Ruh with the Lourdes Grotto project in Cook’s Creek, Manitoba. When Fr. Ruh was on his deathbed in 1962, members of the Council vowed to complete the Lourdes Grotto for him. Organized in work crews, the volunteers laboured for a decade, modeling the structure as much as possible upon the original shrine in Lourdes, France. Serving as Grand Knight from 1965 to 1967, Swiecicki wrote to Secretary-General, Monsignor Jean Marty in Lourdes for details to replicate the original shrine. Also arising from this correspondence, Monsignor Marty sent a stone from the Lourdes Grotto which was installed in Cook’s Creek, about forty years later, in 2007.

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CA UCAWA 08.02

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Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg Archives

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Created by Justin Fuhr, November 12, 2013

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