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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
St. Mary Church League City: Galveston St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal Church Texas City: Galveston St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church Freeport: Galveston Holy Rosary Church 1889 Galveston: Galveston This is a part of the Holy Family Parish, which is a multi-location parish established on August 15, 2009 as a merger of several existing parishes.
Mary's was the first catholic Cathedral in the state of Texas and for over 100 years it was the only cathedral in the Diocese of Galveston. [ 4 ] Due to the tremendous growth in the city of Houston , in 1959, the Holy See permitted the Most Reverend Wendelin J. Nold, fifth bishop of the Galveston Diocese, to erect a cathedral of convenience in ...
Old St. Mary's, Old St Mary's, or Old Saint Mary's may refer to: Old St. Mary's Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), church in United States; Old St Mary's, Walmer, church in Kent, England; Old St. Mary's Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), church in United States; Old St. Mary's Catholic Church (Fredericksburg, Texas), church in United States; Old St Mary's ...
St. Mary's Infirmary in Galveston, Texas after the Cyclone, ca. 1900. The Saint Mary's Orphan Asylum housed at that time 93 children (ages 2 to 13) and 10 sisters. The hurricane arrived quietly on September 7, 1900. The full force of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was not felt until the next day, September 8, and began to erode away the sand ...
Tyina L. Steptoe, author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, stated that they "noted the centrality of the church" to area residents. [3] By World War II, over half of Houston's black Catholics had attended the church, and over 4,000 black children, both Catholic and non-Catholic, had attended its school. [10]
Jean-Marie Odin, C.M. (English: John Mary; February 25, 1800 – May 25, 1870) was a French-born prelate of the Catholic Church and a member of the Congregation of the Mission. He served as the second Archbishop of New Orleans from 1861 to 1870.
On the east wall of the chapel is the statue of "Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom", a statue of Mary with the child Christ on her lap. In the statue, the child is holding a book in one hand while instructing with the other. The interior of the chapel is designed to create a series of shifts during the mass.