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Benedict the Moor OFM (Italian: Benedetto il Moro; 1526 – 4 April 1589) was a Sicilian Franciscan friar. Born of enslaved Africans in San Fratello , he was freed at birth and became known for his charity.
In the 1960s, St. Benedict's parish, established in 1889, merged with that parish and two others and the building became its church. The 18-foot tall statue of St. Benedict the Moor by Frederick Charles Shrady was installed atop its tower in 1968.
In 1883 a Black Catholic mission parish named after St. Benedict the Moor was established, based on a $5,000 bequest by Fr Thomas Farrell to serve the African-American community in Lower Manhattan; his will and testament specified that if the Catholic Church was unable to spend funds for this purpose, it would instead go to the Protestant Colored Orphan Asylum.
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Founded as a merger of the four defunct parishes of Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Boniface, St. Benedict the Moor, and St. Matthew, St. Martin de Porres is the only Catholic church in the Buffalo diocese with a majority-black congregation, and one of only 50 such churches in the United States.
Church of St. Benedict the Moor may refer to: St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, United States; St. Benedict the Moor Church (New York ...
Currently worships in the St. John Bosco Chapel at Wright State University. [80] St. Benedict the Moor 519 Liscum Dr, Dayton Historically Black Parish established in 2005 with the merger of St. James and Resurrection parishes. [81] St. Francis of Assisi 6245 Wilmington Pike, Dayton Parish established in 1969; present church completed in 2004. [82]
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish, Richmond Hill, New York St. Benedict Catholic Church (Greensboro, North Carolina) Church of St. Benedict the Moor (Pittsburgh) , Pennsylvania