Assumption Chapel
Assumption Chapel, also known as the Grasshopper Chapel, is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church (German: Wahlfahrtsort) (German: Gnadenkapelle) situated upon a hill known locally as (German: Marienberg), meaning "Mary's Mountain", on the outskirts of Cold Spring, Minnesota, in a region of Minnesota largely settled in the 1850s by German-American Catholics who were attracted to the area by Fr. Francis Xavier Pierz. Although inspired by ancient traditions carried to America by local peasant-pioneers from Southern Germany, the chapel was constructed in 1877, as a desperate petition to the Blessed Virgin for relief from the Rocky Mountain locusts; a now extinct species of giant grasshopper, whose enormous migrating swarms blotted out the sunlight and devastated farming communities throughout North America between 1856 and 1902.
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Chapel Hill Road, Wakefield Township
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N 45.455833333333 ° | E -94.414166666667 ° |
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Chapel Hill Road
Chapel Hill Road
56320 Wakefield Township
Minnesota, United States
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