By Lindsay Carey Staff Writer The Holy Trinity Polish National Catholic Church on Summer Street in Plantsville will have their 100 year anniversary celebration in October. The anniversary is a special opportunity to celebrate the families who have had five generations grow up within the church. “We’re a family,” said Rev. Joseph Krusienki, who has been with the church for 43 years. “We’re not numbers. We’re not faces. We’re people.” The church will honor the 16 men from the Southington area that separated from the Roman Catholic Church, because of the restrictions and discrimination felt by the Polish in 1914. Polish immigrants formed their own church because they could not hear mass in their native tongue, were not represented in secular church decisions and also because they had to submit to the priests and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church. “Poles were not allowed to go upstairs to worship in the sanctuary,” said church member Arlene Strazzula. “They were told to go down to the cellar, because they weren’t good enough. This is coming from tales that our grandfather told us.” The family oriented church still consists of several members that come from the original founders and Holy Trinity’s earliest [...]
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