SLASCY POLACY W USA

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Panna Maria, osada w południowej części USA, w stanie Teksas, na południowy
wschód od miasta San Antonio. Najstarsza na obszarze Stanów Zjednoczonych
polska osada, założona w 1854 przez emigrantów ze Śląska Opolskiego.

Panna Maria

The Oldest Polish Settlement in America is in Panna Maria (which means the
Virgin Mary), Texas. The first mass was celebrated there on December 24, 1854
where Father Leopold Moczygemba (Pioneer Priest) and his followers purchased
land near a junction between the San Antonio and Cibolo Rivers. Up on top of
a hill they found a few large live-oak trees where they dumped their
belongings and set up camp. On that first midnight they held Panna Maria's
first mass under the biggest of the oaks. It was said to not only be a mass
of Thanksgiving, but also for strength and enlightment to face the task ahead
of them.
These services continued until the first church in Panna Maria was started in
1854. Before and while the church was being built, if it was raining or
something of that sort, they would have mass in a shack.

The first church that was built no longer stands because it was built of a
very poor stone and inferior lime. The church began deteriorating and the
walls began to crack; finally in 1877 it was struck by lightning so it had to
be torn down. Part of the reason the walls were cracked was because of a bell
the Immigrants brought. When it was rung the church shook so it had to be
placed outside on a platform.

The second church that was built was enlarged and then remodeled in 1937 to
meet the growing population. The church that stands today was built in 1882.
This church though has been rebuilt in parts many times. Restoration of the
church is still going on.

www.karnes-city.isd.tenet.edu/trails/rel/ca98/capm/pmmark.html

Leopold Moczygemba

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MOCZYGEMBA, LEOPOLD (1824-1891). Leopold Moczygemba, priest, was born in
Pluznica, Upper Silesia, on October 18, 1824, the son of Leopold and Ewa
(Krawietz) Moczygemba. He is best known in Texas as the founder of the oldest
permanent Polish settlements in the United States, Panna Maria and Bandera,
Texas, but he is equally well known outside the state as an ethnic and Catholic
leader in the northern states from the 1860s to the 1880s. He spent his
childhood in his birthplace and in the nearby village of Ligota Toszecka and
attended first the local Catholic schools and then schools in the towns of
Opole and Gliwice. In 1843 Moczygemba decided to become a priest of the Order
of Friars Minor Conventual. He spent the next four years in northern Italy and
was ordained in 1847. The next year he was moved by his superiors to Bavaria,
where he spent the next five years mainly in study. In 1852 Bishop Jean Marie
Odinqv of Galveston, a native Frenchman, returned to Europe seeking funds and
missionaries to work in his sprawling diocese, which encompassed all of Texas.
He recruited five Franciscan Minor Conventual priests and one lay brother to
serve the German immigrant communities in Texas. Moczygemba was one of this
religious party, which landed in Galveston on September 1, 1852. He quickly
assumed his new post as the first permanent Catholic pastor serving New
Braunfels, where he remained until moving to Castroville in early 1854.

Observing the economic and social advancement of his immigrant parishioners on
the Texas frontier, Father Leopold began writing letters to his family and
friends in Upper Silesia, encouraging them to come to Texas. His letters were
received with perhaps more enthusiasm than he had expected, for almost 200
Polish peasants from his home region sailed for Texas in the winter of 1854-55.
Most of them settled at a place prepared by the priest near the confluence of
the San Antonio River and Cibolo Creek in newly organized Karnes County.
Moczygemba named the site Panna Maria, Polish for "Virgin Mary." Other
Silesians settled in the already existing communities at Bandera and San
Antonio. For the next three years Polish peasants continued coming to Texas and
settling primarily in the areas already occupied by their countrymen. Improved
economic conditions in Upper Silesia, combined with the start of a severe
drought in Texas, ended the movement by 1856-57. Conditions became so harsh, in
fact, that the Poles in anger forced Moczygemba to leave Panna Maria entirely.
He then spent a few months at Castroville before leaving Texas in late 1857.
His legacy included the formation of the first Polish settlements and Polish
Catholic parishes in the United States, the establishment of the first Polish
school in America (at Panna Maria), and major contributions from 1854 to 1857
as the superior of the Franciscan Minor Conventual missions in Texas.

Moczygemba spent most of the remainder of his life in the northern United
States. There he continued to serve as the superior for the Franciscan Minor
Conventual missions in America until 1866, residing most of this time at
Syracuse, New York. For the next twenty-five years, with brief interruptions
for travel and service in Europe, he worked among Germans and Poles in New
York, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. He founded several
parishes, established numerous schools, and participated in the formation of
the Polish Roman Catholic Union, the largest Polish Catholic organization in
the United States. He is better known, however, as the cofounder of Saints
Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan, the only successful
major Polish seminary in the country. The priest continued working among
Catholics until his death in Dearborn, Michigan, on February 23, 1891. On
October 13, 1974, his remains, originally buried in Detroit, were reinterred at
Panna Maria under the oak tree beneath which he had offered Mass for the first
arriving Polish immigrants to Texas at Christmastime in 1854.

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[moczygemba]

Ty miernoto !!!!
My są Reichsdeutsche ,a nie Volksdeutsche.
Po 1933r zmienilismy nazwiska na bardziej niemieckie.
Pół wsi nazywało się Schwarcwald ,a druga połowa Grunwald.

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moczygemba napisał(a):

> Ty miernoto !!!!
> My są Reichsdeutsche ,a nie Volksdeutsche.
> Po 1933r zmienilismy nazwiska na bardziej niemieckie.
> Pół wsi nazywało się Schwarcwald ,a druga połowa Grunwald.

Suchej Moczygemba , tys faktycznie twoja morda umoczyl! Nawet twego nazwiska
nie umiesz poprawnie napisac. ty gorolski ciemniaku!