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Mountain Road Bell Blessed – 1922

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Around 1920 a bell tower was constructed in Mountain Road and a small bell was installed. Within a year, it had cracked and a new bell had to be purchased. Nick Wisnoski and his sons Fred and John donated the new bell before they left the community for Grimsby, Ontario.

The bell was ordered from the Cornille Harvard foundry in Villedieu, France. These same bell makers made the bells in Cooks Creek as well. The mold of the bell was made by hand with clay, horse manure and goat hair. Around the entire top of the bell there are grape vines with a wheat frieze garland underneath. The bell is covered in crosses and around the bottom are religious scenes. In the middle is the name of the bell in Cyrillic – Nykola.

The bell was blessed on September 3rd, 1922 by Father Epiphany Theodorowych.

The bell was and is still in use today and is only rung on Easter Sunday, for funerals and before mass.

Mountain Road Bell – Rung Easter Sunday April 4th, 2010

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2015 Polonia Pilgrimage

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary Polonia, MB 5 Sept 2015
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Polonia, MB
5 Sept 2015
This year St. Elizabeth of Hungary church held its annual Polonia Pilgrimage on Saturday September 5th. It was a drizzly day with a heavy fog in the valley. His Grace Archbishop Richard Gagnon came from Winnipeg to celebrate mass along with St. Elizabeth’s pastor Rev Fr. James Ahaneku and Father Mark Filips from Neepawa. A bus from Holy Ghost parish in Winnipeg was in attendance – we are thankful they come every year – and processed around the grotto and into the church. The service was held inside the church due to the inclement weather. It was a beautiful mass there were readings in english and polish, with His Grace giving the homily.

After mass there was a supper held in the hall at which around 140 people attended.

Thank you everyone who came to celebrate with us.

R.M. of Rosedale