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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 ]
St. Mary's Parish was started at the academy property in 1959. 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.
Paul Deeley won a first-place honor in 1977 at the Design Awards Program of the American Institute of Architects in Fort Worth for his work at St. Laurence. [3] On March 25, 2011 St. Mary’s Church in Amarillo, which had dedicated a new church on September 11, 2010, was named by Pope Benedict XVI as the third cathedral for the Amarillo Diocese ...
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Catholic secondary education in Amarillo can be traced back to 1913 when St. Mary's Academy was moved to Amarillo, TX. St. Mary's Academy was coeducational for grades 1–6; however, the high school was only for young ladies. It was not until 1928 that an all-boys school was created. St.
The first church was constructed in 1884, and with a predominantly Polish congregation, the parish began to grow. [1] During the pastorate of the Rev. Casmir Skory, St. Mary's School was founded in 1893 with Dominican Sisters as teachers. Also during his pastorate a new church was built from 1900 to 1901 for about $15,000.
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is a historic church on FM 1295 in Praha, Texas. It was built in 1895 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [ 2 ] Gottfried Flury, a Swiss-born artist from Moulton, TX, painted much of the interior. [ 3 ]
The church is located at 315 East Pecan Street in Travis Park, in the heart of the River Walk District and is only four blocks from the Alamo. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1998. Lady Bird Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson were married at St. Mark's by Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry on November 17, 1934. [3]