[bell tolling]
- Joeann Daley: Father Samuel Mazzuchelli was born in Milan
in a very wealthy Italian family.
He was 23 years old, newly ordained,
and he was to go by himself up to Mackinac Island.
He no longer had a majestic cathedral,
but he had the cathedral of the forest.
He did not intend to come to the lead mining area,
but the population was here, the needs were here,
and they requested that this little Italian be with them.
He built 21 churches, he built civic buildings as well,
and when we say built, he quarried stone,
he planed wood, he made the designs, and he built it.
But most of all, he knew how to work with people.
"Sure, we can build a church, why not?"
It's a wonder, age 23 to 57,
that one person could accomplish so much
in such a short time.
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