There will be a special dedication of a burial stone on Sunday, May 20, at the St. Rose of Lima Cemetery in Avoca, Minnesota.
The stone will have the names of the six young women who died 130 years ago at the Academy of St. Rose (Holy Child Academy) in Avoca. Their names will be etched deeply into the granite as a reminder of the courageous young women who left their homes on a South Dakota reservation and traveled to the prairie of Southwest Minnesota to attend school, to fall ill and to die in the subzero temperatures of a brutal winter.
A blessing of the stone with a short prayer service will begin at 2 p.m. at the cemetery. This will be followed by a light lunch at Divine Mercy Hall at St. Ann’s Catholic Church on Maple Avenue in Slayton. There will also be a special Native American blessing to conclude the dedication. This notice is your invitation to join in this most historic ceremony in Murray County.
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