Wisconsin's Grandest Church - Historical Basilica of St Josaphat

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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    Aerial video of the historical Basilica of St Josaphat, an exceptional church building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I tell about its history from Polish American Milwaukee and show both the exterior and interior. It is Beaux-Arts Italian Renaissance Revival architecture which has been painstakingly preserved. This is an architectural landmark of Wisconsin history, and a place that everyone who lives in Wisconsin should know about!
    #wisconsin history
    #Basilica of St Josephat
    #milwaukee history

КОМЕНТАРІ • 38

  • @Frisbeeninja2
    @Frisbeeninja2 2 роки тому +20

    I honestly can't believe you only have a few hundred views on these videos, they are great and informative! Keep up the good work!

  • @bigtub1101
    @bigtub1101 2 роки тому +16

    Yesterday when my grandpa was picking me up from my dorm we passed the Stanislaus church on the way home and he shared a story that he heard from I think his childhood friends or mother. On the top of the building between the two spires is a big bell, and they rang the bell when I think the transubstantiation happened (I can’t remember exactly what he said, all I know is that the bell was rung near the end of the service) and the bell rang for the whole neighborhood and the kids called it the potato bell because it told them that their parents would be home from church in ten minutes and they needed to put the potatoes on for supper.
    Thanks for this awesome video!

    • @placesofthepast
      @placesofthepast  2 роки тому +1

      That’s wonderful, thanks for sharing!

    • @mrs6968
      @mrs6968 2 роки тому +1

      Great story thanks for sharing

  • @mrs6968
    @mrs6968 2 роки тому +6

    I love this churches architecture so much that I legit bought a vinyl record from a local thrift shop just because this was on its cover yet I was always under the impression that it was shipped brick by brick from across seas to be reconstructed however when you brought up that Italian Polish German English fact just goes to show why they always called milwaukee a great melting pot. Thank you for all your uploads!!!

  • @mgweir3252
    @mgweir3252 11 місяців тому +3

    This is a beautiful church. I grew up a couple of miles away from it. It looks like it should be in Europe. I highly recommend a tour if you are in the area.

  • @jeffpawlinski3210
    @jeffpawlinski3210 11 місяців тому +4

    I grew up just two blocks from The Basilica of St. Josaphat and I attended grade school there from K5 through 8th Grade. Also, I was an Alter Boy there from 2nd Grade through my Senior Year of High School at the neighboring Catholic High School to St. Stanislaus, Notre Dame High. I've been to the top of the St. Josaphat's Dome and to the adjoining twin spires. I'm the Grandchild of Polish immigrants and would not trade my childhood and lifelong Milwaukee neighborhood friendships for all the gold in the world!

  • @muddywisconsin
    @muddywisconsin 2 роки тому +4

    Impressive video, I drive past that church every other day and always wondered what the inside looks like, thank you for this

  • @orangemanbad
    @orangemanbad 8 місяців тому +1

    Makes me so sad to see our Catholic faith having been disposed of in 1969 and replaced with this new baptist style church!

  • @jimorr820
    @jimorr820 10 місяців тому +1

    St. Stanislaus in Pittsburgh predates this one and is also a polish
    Ethnic church. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Pittsburgh, also a polish ethnic church, is built in what's called Polish Cathedral architectural style, that is the exterior is a replica of St. Peters in Rome.

    • @anahatatutu
      @anahatatutu 9 місяців тому

      MKE has an older Stanislaus, actually, both parish and church - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stanislaus_Catholic_Church_(Milwaukee)

  • @lcracalcraca9425
    @lcracalcraca9425 21 день тому

    Greetings from Colombia. Beautiful city, I have it in my list to my next vacation (I hope haha)

  • @josephdonalde
    @josephdonalde 25 днів тому

    th st stanislaus polish latin mass is th best --yer wis cathedrl now is modernist heretic st jn th evangelist

  • @JaylenPotts-zs2qw
    @JaylenPotts-zs2qw 4 місяці тому

    Great church in Milwaukee Wisconsin great history and traditions.

  • @pamh3595
    @pamh3595 2 роки тому +2

    Great video!!! Looking forward to more!

  • @paulyosef7550
    @paulyosef7550 3 місяці тому

    To bad they do the Novie Mass in such a beautiful church. Such a waste.

  • @lizg1918
    @lizg1918 2 роки тому +2

    This is great!

  • @bigcatproductions2789
    @bigcatproductions2789 2 роки тому +1

    The people who fought and died for the Unions 🇺🇸🇵🇱

  • @peggysaindon8281
    @peggysaindon8281 2 роки тому +1

    Hi, Andy.

  • @beverlyplonski-mcgavock3512
    @beverlyplonski-mcgavock3512 4 місяці тому

    Milwaukee native living in California now, I LOVE these videos celebrating my beloved home city and state. Awesome job!!

    • @placesofthepast
      @placesofthepast  4 місяці тому

      So glad you like them, thanks for the comment!

  • @benedictchinweuba5820
    @benedictchinweuba5820 2 роки тому

    oh that is brilliant!

  • @user-bm8hb4ci6h
    @user-bm8hb4ci6h Рік тому

    Wonderful!

  • @chetanathneupane2200
    @chetanathneupane2200 2 роки тому

    Nice, subscribed.

  • @ceasergert2780
    @ceasergert2780 Рік тому

    Wow

  • @joshuakeller7525
    @joshuakeller7525 2 роки тому

    my parents used to live a few blocks south of the church on South 8th Street

    • @anahatatutu
      @anahatatutu 9 місяців тому

      Played in there and used to play at Stari Grad just down the block

  • @maxanisimov
    @maxanisimov 2 роки тому +1

    Basilica of St. Josaphat is located within class C airspace. Hope you had an authorization to fly a drone there…

  • @nhmikey1
    @nhmikey1 10 місяців тому

    Found not built. We couldn't build this today, let alone 100 years ago with horse and buggies. I'm learning the truth, so should you.

    • @placesofthepast
      @placesofthepast  10 місяців тому

      I think it’s more that we wouldn’t build this today, rather than couldn’t, since the achievement of this building is artistic more than purely structural. Our standards of beauty has eroded somewhat, look at a modern art museum vs Renaissance art for example. And you don’t see the same cultural drive to invest in beauty in church buildings.

    • @anahatatutu
      @anahatatutu 9 місяців тому

      Right... and Notre Dame was built with space lasers.

    • @anahatatutu
      @anahatatutu 9 місяців тому

      Completely... I'm noticing these conspiracy theories about US 19th-century architecture being "found" from a prior civilization. Looney tunes stuff.
      We actually had better artisans for this kind of construction back then than we do now, but it is all still doable. Our priorities have changed and we build things that they couldn't have, not the other way around. @@placesofthepast

    • @jonathanstensberg
      @jonathanstensberg 4 місяці тому

      Bro, you need to look up the new monastery being built with stone by hand right now in Wyoming. You can go there and see it happening with you own eyes. They’d probably even let you help if you asked nicely. People in the past did incredible things because they were forced by their circumstances to think hand and work hard. We find it difficult to imagine how they did these things because the ease and convenience of modern life limits our imagination and determination to do great things.