235:. A temporary frame church building, in honor of St. Aloysius, was dedicated on 16 October 1892 as well as a school building. Masses were largely in German. Around the turn of the century, numerous Italian immigrants arrived in the district. In 1903, Rev. Holweck invited Rev. Ceasar Spigardi of St. Charles Borromeo Church in St. Charles, Missouri, to organize a mission for Italians in the St. Aloysius building. This mission raised funds to organize the St. Ambrose parish, which served primarily the recent Lombard immigrants, who were able to move into their own temporary building by year’s end.
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Holweck had received an extensive advanced theological education. His 1892 Freiburg dissertation collected 940 Marian feasts and customs. He supported the St Louis
Catholic Historical Society, as an original researcher into the local history of the diocese and in other fields. Holweck was a
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of 1896. The second edifice, incorporating many of the characteristics of German ecclesiastical architecture is familiarly known as "the
Cathedral of South St. Louis." He also served as vicar-general of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
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