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History of Holy Rosary
Parish Tacoma was a town of 36,000 people when Holy
Rosary Parish was founded. A group of German-speaking Catholics
raised the money to purchase the land and build the first wooden
church.
At the request of those first pioneers, Bishop Aegidius Junger of
Nisqually offered the parish to Abbot Bernard Locnikar, O.S.B. of
Saint John's Abbey of Collegeville, Minnesota, who came out
personally to inspect the new church.
On July 16, 1891 Fr. William Eversmann, O.S.B. arrived in Tacoma
as Holy Rosary's first pastor.
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