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Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish is a historic Roman Catholic parish church complex in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 94-40 118th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City. Description [ edit ]
Benedict Joseph Labre, TOSF (French: Benoît-Joseph Labre, 25 March 1748 – 16 April 1783) was a French Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint. Labre was from a well-to-do family near Arras, France. After attempting a monastic lifestyle, he opted instead for the life of a pilgrim.
Holy Child Jesus -Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Church, 94-40 118th St, Richmond Hill: Built in 1919. [46] Combined in one parish. Holy Child Jesus Church, 111-11 86th Ave Combined in one parish. Holy Cross Church: 61-21 56th Rd, Maspeth: Built in 1913, Polish national church. [47] Holy Family-St. Laurence Parish
The principal places of pilgrimage are: Notre-Dame de Rocamadour, visited by St. Louis (1245), Charles the Fair (1324), and Louis XI (1463); Notre-Dame de Félines and Notre-Dame de Verdale, both dating back to the eleventh century; Saint-Hilaire Lalbenque, where relics of St. Benedict Joseph Labre are preserved.
St. Matthias Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens County, New York, in the Diocese of Brooklyn.. Its historic buildings include the parish church, completed in 1926, an Italian Renaissance Revival style, brick, stone, and terra cotta church with a gable roof which features a three-stage bell tower at the projecting center bay and Corinthian ...
The church also has statues of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Saint Philomena, Saint Malachy himself, and Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, known as "The Ragged Saint" by the people of Belfast and throughout Ireland.
On February 14, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI approved the petition of Bishop Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio to have the church designated as the diocesan co-cathedral because the Cathedral Basilica of St. James is too small to hold diocesan liturgies, [4] and because of its prime location near the newly opened Barclays Center and a construction boom that ...
Beach 24th St., Beach 25th St., and Beach 26th St. between the Rockaway Boardwalk on the south and Seagirt Ave on the north, in Far Rockaway neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City: Coordinates: Area: 5.8 acres: Built: 1921: Architect: Henry Hohauser