Mass was celebrated in private homes a couple of times a year by priests who traveled from DeLand.

[1] He purchased property on South Palmetto and Myrtle Avenues and built a church in 1898.

Pope Benedict XVI decreed on January 20, 2006, that St. Paul's church was elevated to the status of a minor basilica.

[2] It was solemnized by Bishop Thomas G. Wenski on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul that same year.

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