St. Gregory Cemetery in St. Nazianz

Jul 30, 2014 at 10:51 am

Last week I traveled to St. Nazianz, located in southern Manitowoc County, on assignment and discovered the St. Gregory Parish Cemetery. It is quite a peaceful place, situated behind St. Gregory Church, which was built during the Civil War and completed in 1868.

The Village of St. Nazianz has a colorful history. It was founded by a German priest, Fr. Ambrose Oschwald, in 1854. Earlier that year, he led a group of parishioners from the Diocese of Freiburg in Germany to the United States to establish a colony. He even wrote a list of statutes that governed the colony. The 29 sections of the colony’s statues guided their existence. “Those who will not obey the rules and the regulations … cannot be admitted in the parish, nor remain there,” according to Section 29.

Fr. Oschwald established the Loretto Monastery for the Oshwald Brothers, a convent for the Oschwald Sisters and a community of faithful Catholics. In its heyday, St. Nazianz was home to a high school, college and a seminary.

The remains of many of this village’s leaders who helped build St. Nazianz are now resting in the parish cemetery. If you’re in the area (about 12 miles west of Interstate 43 on Highway C), stop by St. Gregory Church and Cemetery. It is a place filled with beauty and history.

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