Article: ST. HYACINTH'S CELEBRATES 100; A JUBILEE MASS IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 18.(Neighbors Cayuga)

Byline: Dorothy Long Staff writer

It has been 100 years since Father Stanislaus J. Szupa, ordained only two weeks before, was sent to Auburn to organize a Polish parish.

The church he founded, St. Hyacinth's, continues to thrive and parishioners are celebrating with a series of special events including a special Mass on Sept. 18 and a class reunion at the annual church picnic in July.

The story of St. Hyacinth's is, in many ways, the story of Polish immigrants and their descendents in Auburn. The church the immigrants built was the center of the neighborhood.

Poles began to arrive in Auburn in the 1880s, settling in the northern ...

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