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The Church of St. Mary is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 1101 Bay Street, Staten Island, New York City.St. Mary's is the second oldest of the 36 Roman Catholic parishes on Staten Island, having been established in 1852, after St. Peter's (1839), and before St. Joseph's in Rossville (1855).
Today, Saint Mary's is known for its solemn liturgies and choral and organ music. Solemn High Mass and Solemn Evensong and Benediction are celebrated on Sundays, and Mass is offered daily. Because of the copious use of incense, the church is sometimes referred to as "Smoky Mary's". In 1996-97, the interior of the church was restored by J ...
Although the parish of St. Mary's was renamed "Mary Immaculate of Lourdes" at the consecration of the new church building on Thanksgiving Day, 1910, the parish cemetery retained its original name of St. Mary's. Much of the work to clear and construct the cemetery was done by hired and volunteer parishioners.
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St. Mary's Church was chosen to be the cathedral of the new diocese. Bishop Michael J. O'Farrell was consecrated on Cardinal John McCloskey at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and enthroned in St. Mary's on November 17, 1881. The gymnasium and convent were built around 1900. [4] A new large Casavant Brothers organ was installed in 1948. [5]
St. Mary's Cemetery is located nearby on Hurd Street in Mine Hill Township and extending into the town of Dover. [10] It was established in 1874, and extended in 1903. [ 11 ] The churchyard from the first church is also located in Mine Hill Township, across U.S. Route 46 from the current church in Wharton. [ 1 ]
The church reopened in October 2020, in time for the October 31st beatification mass of Michael J. McGivney, who founded the Knights of Columbus at St. Mary's in 1882. While the beatification mass itself was celebrated at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford, a concurrent ceremony including a live broadcast of the mass and veneration of a ...
St. Mary of the Assumption Church (commonly referred to as St. Mary's) is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the Archdiocese of Boston. The first church was constructed in Dedham Centre in 1857 and it was formally established as a parish in 1866. In 1880 the parish built a larger church on High Street, towards ...