In 1995 Holy Cross was clustered with St. At the 200th anniversary celebration on September 15, 1985, more than 1,000 people attended. The church celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1935 with descendants of many of the original settlers present. Two weeks later plans were underway to replace the school with a brick structure. In 1958 fire destroyed the two-story frame school that had at one time housed a grade and high school. A convent was built and the school was enlarged. In 1914 three Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. After reflecting on the Seven Sorrows (the Prophecy of Simeon and Anna, the Flight into Egypt, the Loss of the Child Jesus, the Condemnation of Jesus, the Crucifixion, the Retrieval of Jesus’ Body from the Cross, and the Burial of Jesus), I found them remarkably relevant to our world today. Father Robert Byrne, a local boy, became pastor and remained at Holy Cross for twenty years.įather Edward Lynch built the first frame school in 1880. In 1823 the present brick church was built. From the fall of 1822 to the spring of 1824, Belgian Father Charles Nerinckx served Holy Cross. They serve our parishes in ministering corporal and spiritual works of mercy: burying our deceased Catholic brethren and their family members, comforting the sorrowful, and praying for the living and the dead with all attendant rites of the Roman Catholic Church. A grotto today marks where this structure, the first west of the Alleghenies for Catholic worship, was built.įather Stephen Badin, the “Apostle of Kentucky” and the first priest ordained in the United States, came to Kentucky in 1793 and cared for the entire state from Holy Cross. Under Father William DeRohan the first chapel was built at Holy Cross. Each pledged to migrate to Kentucky and agreed to settle in the same area for mutual support, to increase their chances of having a priest and to establish a church. ![]() ![]() Holy Cross, known as the birthplace of Catholicism in Kentucky, was established in 1785, when “a league” of sixty Catholic families was formed in Maryland. Our Lady Of Sorrows (Dolours) Chapel and Holy Cross Cemetery, under the authority of the Basilica parish, are located on South Park Street.
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