Editing Sartell, Minnesota (section)

==Religion==
The Sartell family was largely [[Presbyterian]], and helped organize the first church in the town, Riverside Presbyterian, on the west bank of the Mississippi River about one mile north of the town's (then) sole stop sign, to serve the Sunday interests of local [[Protestants]]. Saint [[Francis Xavier]] Church, [[Roman Catholic]], was founded in 1948, named after [[Francis Xavier Pierz]], a Slovenian missionary to [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] in the area, and largely responsible for attracting the large population of Slovenian, Polish, [[Bohemia]]n, Slovakian and especially German farmers to the area.