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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower, also called Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Thérèse Church, is a historic Catholic church in San Antonio, Texas. It is one of 84 minor basilicas in the United States and one of only four in the state of Texas. [2]
The first Catholic priests in the region came from Kansas and New Mexico during the 1870s, serving the small Catholic population in periodic visits. The first Catholic church in the Texas Panhandle was St. Mary's, dedicated in Clarendon in 1892, to serve Irish and German railroad workers. [3]
Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (June 17, 1923 – January 31, 2012) was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1988 to 2003. Bevilacqua previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh from 1983 to 1987 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1980 to 1983.
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 ...
A new church was built for the parish in 1981 and it was destroyed in a fire on February 26, 2007. The first to raise the possibility of St. Mary's becoming a cathedral was Bishop John Yanta . Because he was nearing retirement no action was taken.
His funeral took place at the McCabe Funeral Home in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and at the Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church in Royal Oak, Michigan. [7] Having died two months short of his 47th birthday, he was survived by his wife of nineteen years, Jo-Jo Shutty-MacGregor.
Christ the Servant parish at 833 39th St. NW in Canton will become a collaborative unit with Little Flower parish at 2040 ... the Baptist and St. Peter Catholic Church in Canton will merge as part ...
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.