In the late 1870’s a grasshopper epidemic was engulfing the Minnesota farmlands and the people of the city of Cold Spring called upon Governor John Sargent Pillsbury (as in the Dough-boy fame) for a statewide day of prayer on April 26, 1877 for God to deliver them from the insects. Over the next two days warm weather caused millions and millions of larvae to be hatched but on the 4th day an unusual cold front, complete with snow, came and froze the larvae. Some months later the grasshoppers fled and local parishioners built this chapel in Cold Spring to commemorate the event.
