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The Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary is an international Catholic fraternal service order. Founded in 1909 by the Josephites and parishioners from Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama , it is the largest and oldest Black Catholic lay -led organization still in existence.
Peter Claver SJ (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó; 26 June 1580 – 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú, Spain, who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia, and ministry to African Americans.
Knights of Peter Claver - Founded in 1909 by members of Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama, as a Black Catholic fraternal order, as Blacks were barred from the Knights of Columbus due to their race. Among the founders were The Rev. John H. Dorsey (the second Black Catholic priest ordained in the US), several White ...
The landmark steeple at the First Church of Christ, West Hartford Congregational, has been a South Main Street landmark since it was first erected about 75 years ago. But while is was receiving a ...
St. John's Episcopal Church (Warehouse Point, Connecticut) St. John's Episcopal Church (West Hartford, Connecticut) St. John's Episcopal Church (East Hartford, Connecticut) St. Joseph Parish, Suffield; St. Mary Parish (Newington, Connecticut) St. Stanislaus Parish (Bristol, Connecticut) South Congregational Church (New Britain, Connecticut)
Father Norman Fischer, a Catholic priest who ministered to hundreds of Lexingtonians from St. Peter Claver Church and as chaplain at Lexington Catholic High School, died on July 14 while traveling ...
St. Mary's Church (Stamford, Connecticut) St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (Hartford, Connecticut) St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Milford, Connecticut) St. Sebastian Church (Middletown, Connecticut) Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church (Hartford, Connecticut) Second Church of Christ; South Canaan Congregational Church; South Congregational ...
The building was designed by Davis & Brooks and built in 1913-14 for a congregation known as The Free Church and later as the Fourth Congregational Church, established in 1832. This church building notably reused the doors, steeple, and portico of the congregation's old church, an 1850 building designed by New Haven architect Sidney Mason Stone.