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The Church of St. Veronica was a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 153 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in the West Village area of the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, [3] was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition. [4] A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, [5] but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph Braun cited her commemoration in Festi ...
In 1961, after authenticity questions regarding St. Philomena, the church was rededicated to English martyr St. Thomas More. In 1977, the original chapel was demolished and a new rectory and much-needed parish center were constructed, connected to the new church and in the same architectural style.
St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 1400 Riverside Ave, Baltimore Founded in 1871 for Irish immigrants, church dedicated that same year. Now part of Catholic Community of South Baltimore [6] Community of St. Athanasius and St. Rose of Lima St. Athanasius Church, 4708 Prudence St, Baltimore Founded in 1892, Now merged with St. Rose of Lima Parish [7]
The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and was established in 1851 as St. Lawrence O'Toole's Church. In 1898, permission to change the patron saint of the parish from St. Lawrence O'Toole to St. Ignatius of Loyola was granted by Rome. [2] The address is 980 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10028.
Parish established in 1989 with the merger of St. Stephen, St. Mary, and St. Veronica parishes, all of Hamilton. Current church, formerly St. Stephen , was completed in 1854, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and extensively renovated in 1992.
St. Monica-St. Thomas the Apostle Parish St. Monica Church, 470 24th Ave. 1911 Current church dedicated in 1918. Merged in 2017 with St. Thomas the Apostle. [18] St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 3835 Balboa St. First church built in 1923, expanded in 1930. Merged in 2017 with St. Monica [19] St. Vincent de Paul: 2320 Green St. 1911
Veronica holding her veil, Hans Memling, c. 1470 The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand").