51st Litomysl Summer Festival this Sunday

The annual Litomysl Summer festival is this Sunday at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church just south of Owatonna.

The 170 families of the parish will host the event, which is one of the largest summer parish festivals held in Minnesota each year. The country style festival draws people from all over.

Holy Trinity Church dates back to 1878, when settlers in the Litomysl community built their first church. The community is actually named after the original Litomysl, located about 100 miles east of Prague. In 1940-41 they built the stone church that parishioners worship in today. It is one of the largest stone churches in the nation. Members of the parish brought over 600 loads of rock from their fields to build it.

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

• Polka Mass at 10:15 am
• Festival from 11 am to 4 pm

The weather forecast for this Sunday is perfect! Sunny, with a high of 81.

The festival will feature games for all ages, outdoor food booths, filled biscuits, live music, silent auction, cash prize raffle, face painting, pony rides, pull tabs, country and used-a-bit stores, and much more!

The ladies of the parish will make many, many dozen prune, poppyseed and apricot biscuits (or "buchty" in Czech). They will go on sale at 11:00 am in the church basement -- and they won't last long!

You certainly won’t leave hungry, as the Holy Trinity community will be stocked with pork rib sandwiches, pork burgers, brats, hot dogs, walking tacos, root beer floats and refreshments to quench the thirst of all ages.

Be ready to play games like plinko, bingo, spin the wheel, fish pond, dime toss and the ever popular root beer barrel game.

Litomysl is located 8 miles south of Owatonna on County Road 45, then 2 miles east on County Road 4 (SE 98th St); to 9946 24th Avenue SE, Owatonna. ⬅️ Enter that in your GPS.