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Image #’s A58-162, 163, 163a; I captured these images while visiting St. Fidelis Catholic Church in Victoria, Kansas. To many it is also known as “The Cathedral of the Plains”. This structure was placed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1971. The exterior is constructed of native limestone rock, quarried seven miles south of Victoria. The beautiful, rose shaped stained glass window (left) is on the front of the church above the main entryway. The photo to the right is a limestone statue of Russian-German immigrants which is located directly northwest of the church.
Thousands of people left Russia in the 1870’s. Actually, these immigrants had closer ties to Germany than to Russia. Just a century earlier they had left war-torn Germany for Russia’s unsettled agricultural provinces. In these isolated lands they clustered in close-knit villages removed from their neighbors, preserving many of their German customs. This work of art was sculpted by Pete Felton, "The Stone Gallery" in Hays, Kansas.
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