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Gerhard Forde

He also spent sabbatical years at Harvard (1972–73), Strasbourg (1979–80), and St. John's University Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota (1988).

James Franklin Kay

Later, during the summers of 1976 and 1977 he took graduate studies in Liturgiology at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Matt Schnobrich

As a freshman at Saint John's, the 6'5" Schnobrich took up rowing on the idyllic Lake Sagatagan in Stearns County.

Minnesota State Highway 237

Minnesota State Highway 237 is a short highway in central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with Stearns County Roads 12 and 30 in New Munich and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with Interstate 94 and Stearns County Road 65 (Thunder Road) in Oak Township near Melrose.

Rockville, Minnesota

On June 1, 2002, the city of Pleasant Lake and Rockville Township were merged into the city of Rockville.

Assumption Chapel

In Stearns County, about a month after the State wide day of Prayer, newly ordained Father Leo Winter, OSB, was assigned to the Parish of St. James in Jacobs Prairie with the mission of St. Nicholas some eight miles away.

Freeport, Minnesota

Garrison Keillor, creator of Lake Wobegon and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has written that Stearns County in general and Freeport specifically, in addition to other small Minnesota towns, were inspirations for his fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

Minnesota folklore

Father Francis Xavier Pierz, a pioneer missionary priest, is the subject of many tales told among the Catholics of Stearns County, Minnesota.

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