Saint Casimir / Kazimierz Cleveland

09/03/2026

Kewin Lasota and Michal Golab STILL standing a month later... awaiting to serve you after the Taste of St. Casimir Festival!!!

08/30/2026

Gołąbki, nice and warm in sauce worth savoring up with bread.🇵🇱

Cabbage rolls stuffed and simmered the way they were at home.

Soup style barszcz.

Bread.

And a slice of watermelon, because summer is not over yet!
😉

Every Sunday.
Mass at 11:30am, then food in the social hall at 1:00.

Stay and eat with us, or take it to go.

Photo from a parishioner who couldn't help but grab another portion to take home.
This is them eating it later!

08/23/2026

Final chance. Fatima statue leaves after tomorrow. 🇵🇱

The Fatima statue blessed by Pope John Paul II has been visiting St. Casimir, this Sunday the 22nd is the final day to see her before she moves on.

Viewable before and after our 11:30am Mass.

8223 Sowinski Ave, Cleveland

If you have been meaning to come see her, this is it. See you there!

08/21/2026

🕯️ IN LOVING MEMORY 🕯️

Krystyna Bienia
May 23, 1944 – August 18, 2026

With heavy hearts and abiding faith in the promise of the Resurrection, our parish family shares news of the passing of Krystyna Bienia, age 82, who entered eternal rest peacefully on August 18, 2026.

Krystyna's story began in Szreńsk, Poland, where she trained as an elementary school teacher.

On July 4, 1964, Independence Day, she immigrated to the United States and arrived in Cleveland, a young woman beginning again in a new country.
In 1971, while teaching Polish classes, she met Mitchell.

She went on to earn her degree in respiratory therapy and served in that field for 40 years, caring for others through the whole of her working life.

Together with Mitchell, she owned Kniola Travel Bureau for 25 years, a business that carried them around the world.

She also had a lifelong love of shopping, and an even greater love of a good deal.

Krystyna's life was marked by pride in her family, her career, and in living the American dream. She was a devoted and active member of Cleveland's Polish American community.

💐 SURVIVED BY

Dearly beloved wife of 50 years to Dr. Mitchell Bienia.

Loving and devoted mother of Dr. Krystyna (Eliezer Morales Santiago) Bienia and Mrs. Michelle (Joseph) Boyd.

Cherished grandmother of Jackson Boyd, Christopher Boyd, and Marcos Morales Vedenskiy.

Sister of Ryszard Prelewicz (deceased) and Wanda (Jan, deceased) Weichbrodt of Poland.

Dearest aunt, cousin, and friend of many.

🕊️ VISITATION
Monday, August 24, 2026 · 4:00 – 8:00 PM
Craciun Berry Funeral Home
7200 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH 44102

⛪ MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · 11:00 AM
Historic St. Casimir Church
8223 Sowinski Ave., Cleveland, OH 44103

📍 PLEASE MEET AT THE CHURCH

Interment to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Please keep the entire Bienia family in your prayers.

Wieczny odpoczynek racz jej dać, Panie 🕯️
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord.

Celebrate the life of Krystyna Bienia, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Craciun Berry Funeral Home.

08/08/2026

1,250+ of you showed up. 🇵🇱

You waited in line for pierogi, kielbasa, gołąbki and more…

You danced to Polish music.

You drank the cytrynówka we only make ONCE a year.
You came back for seconds.

Some of you drove across town.
Some of you flew in. And many from out of state…

Some of you walked through our doors for the very first time.

This is what a parish looks like when everybody shows up.

To everyone who prepared, poured, cooked, served, hauled, cleaned, played, and stayed until the last table was folded:
THANK YOU!

And because you showed up, our roof project is closer than it has ever been.

That is not a small thing.

Every plate of food and every cold piwo went toward keeping this building standing for the next generation.

Our great grandparents built this and handed it to us with expectations we need to hold.

This year, we proved they were right.

There's more coming. Follow this page so you don't miss it. 🇵🇱

Last Church Photo by Marc Kirby

08/03/2026

Taste of St. Casimir - Annual Polish Food Festival
⛪️Sunday Mass

07/21/2026

We make this once a year. Then it's gone. 🍋🇵🇱

Cytrynówka our homemade Polish lemon h***h. You can't buy our mix anywhere!

Okocim & Tyskie beer... plus more.
Beer garden's open both days.

Taste of St. Casimir · July 25 & 26 · Cleveland ·
$5 admission (10 yrs below free)

👇 Lemon drop or cold beer, what's first?