Inside St. Adalbert Church

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A woman looks up at the altar inside St. Adalbert Church, St. Paul, ca. 1996. From Wing Young Huie's Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996), 33. The photo's caption in the book reads, "God is the most important thing in my family life. I've been a Catholic since I was born. Both my mother and my father's parents were Catholics. And their mother and father. It goes back many generations. Same with my husband. The traditional religion in Vietnam is to worship the ancestors. As Catholics we worship God, but we also keep our traditions. This church [St. Adalbert] allows us to do that." Used with the permission of Wing Young Huie.

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