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Little Flower 290 Plainfield Ave, Berkeley Heights: Opened 1930 [38] St. Agnes 332 Madison Hill Rd, Clark: St. Michael 40 Alden St, Cranford: St. Catherine of Siena 1000 N Broad St, Hillside: Founded 1904; current church built 1920s [39]
It included homes for workers and their families, dormitories, orchards, a post office and a general store with a second floor church. [18] Little Flower Catholic Church next to the Berkeley Heights Public Library. In 1860, Feltville was sold to sarsaparilla makers. Other manufacturing operations continued until Feltville went into bankruptcy ...
Little Flower School (Berkeley Heights) - Closed in 1988; St. Agnes School - Closed in 2014. [26] St. Anne School (Garwood) - Closed in 1986; St. James the Apostle School (Springfield) - Closed in 2020 [33] St. Mary School - Merged into Saints Mary and Elizabeth Academy, based in Linden, in 2004
The Shrine of the Little Flower honors Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, a Discalced Carmelite nun who died at the age of 24 in 1897. She’s the patron saint of florists, foreign missions, loss of ...
Elizabeth Wemett of the Lord family sold the property to Berkeley Heights in 1975. [ 5 ] The farmstead property, all of which is owned by the township of Berkeley Heights, includes the main farmhouse, an adjacent Victorian annex in the Carpenter Gothic style (which served as a schoolhouse in the 1870s), a stone spring house , a summer kitchen ...
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Named in honor of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (who was known as "the Little Flower"), the church was first built in 1926 in a largely Protestant area. [2] [3] It was founded in 1925, a year before construction started. Within days of the church opening, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in front of the church. [4]
The church hierarchy also feared the backlash from Coughlin's Catholic supporters if they reprimanded him. [37] Coughlin opened a new church building at the Shrine of the Little Flower in 1936, an octagonal structure shaped like a tent. One of its unique features was an altar positioned at the center of worship.