Sainte Anne's Catholic Church, Mackinac Island — Attraction in Mackinac Island

This Roman Catholic parish has been on Mackinac Island for years, and has amassed a wealth of historical artifacts and information.

There has been a "Saint Anne" Parish serving the Roman Catholic community in various locations in Mackinaw City, Fort Michilimackinac, and Mackinac Island for almost four centuries. The parish on Mackinac Island continues this Mission and is the successor to the very first missionaries who arrived from France in the 1600s.

The church is absolutely beautiful and daily mass is available at 11am, which we attended. However, a hidden gem in the basement of the church is the small but detailed museum they have dedicated to the faith life of Saint Anne's Parish. The information and artifacts go back to the early Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s. There's also a quaint gift shop that has many religious gifts, books, cards, and also texts about the ministry of the Roman Catholic Church in northern Michigan.

Admission to both the church and the museum are free but donations are encouraged. An excellent...

Originally there was a burial ground set up near here by French fur traders in 1779. When that filled to capacity in the 1850s, islanders buried their dead on military reserve land near Fort Mackinac Post Cemetery behind the fort, which was one of the few areas on the rocky island where the topsoil was deep enough to dig graves. By the 1880s, most bodies from the cemetery near this church had been moved to St. Ann's Cemetery. Not all graves were transferred, several stray headstones were found in the weeks in town over the years.

Madame Magdelaine La Framboise, who's large home is the hotel next door donated the land for the church when it needed more property. She was laid to rest in the lower level of the church, built in 1879.

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Beautiful Catholic Church on Mackinac Island. The architecture and ornamentation is impressive and worth seeing especially given the structure's age and comparative remoteness. They had to drag the thing across the ice from the mainland after all! The stained glass and painting inside is just beautiful! The museum downstairs is definitely worth looking at as well. There are a number of historically significant artifacts, some recovered from the lake, some which have been kept at the church through the years (through centuries in several cases). If you're on the island even just for the day this is worth...