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He added a wing to Farren Memorial Hospital in Montague, Massachusetts, and built Mont Marie, the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield. [13] Weldon erected 10 new parishes, and constructed 11 new churches and several parish centers. [ 13 ]
The parish was established in 1847 as the church of St. Benedict after years of local Catholics fighting Protestant opposition to establish a parish. [3] The congregation purchased a former Baptist church which served as its first home. For the first five years, it had no pastor when the Rev. Michael P. Gallagher was assigned to serve the parish.
The first Roman Catholic parish in western Massachusetts was established in 1860, at St. Michael's in Springfield. The Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts was organized in 1870 to better serve the growing Catholic population in the Pioneer Valley. The French Catholics of St. Michael's (predominantly French Canadian immigrants) pushed for ...
The St. John's Congregational Church and Parsonage-Parish for Working Girls are a pair of historic religious buildings at 69 Hancock and 643 Union Streets in Springfield, Massachusetts. The church, built in 1911 for an African-American congregation founded in 1889, is a well-preserved example of English and Gothic Revival architecture.
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A parish house was added to the east side of the church in the 1940s. Built of brick, it was faced with limestone that was quarried in Longmeadow at about the same time as that of the church itself. It was recovered from the First Baptist Church prior to its demolition. [3] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
In 1825, Reverend John Timon celebrated the first mass in Cape Girardeau and in 1833 dedicated the first church there. [6] The oldest parish in Springfield, Immaculate Conception, was established in 1868. [7] In Joplin, the first Catholic church was started in 1878. [8] Our Lady of the Lake, the only Catholic church in Branson, was dedicated in ...
St Hilary's Church may refer to: United Kingdom. St Hilary's Chapel (also known as St Hilary's Church), Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales; St Hilary's Church, St Hilary ...