What is not generally known is that Washington played a role as a founding father of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and cemetery, the oldest Catholic parish and cemetery in Virginia.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 516 Fillmore St., and St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, 417 N. Main St., Davenport, will merge July 1. A move to St. Anthony’s will be completed by the end of the ...

Mary was the last survivor of her siblings. Mary graduated from Port Huron High School and Michigan State College (MSU). She was a life-long parishioner of St. Joseph Catholic Church.

Alexandria Historian Michael Miller, in his book “Burials in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery 1799-1983,” identified the first known burial at the new cemetery as Caven Boa who died Aug. 20, 1799.

Mary Anne Brown, 80, of River Forest, IL passed away on May 11, 2025. Mary Anne was born in Cincinnati, OH to Ruth (Risdon) and Dwight Broeman on December 25, 1944. She attended Rosarian Academy in… ...

It’s been one year since Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Barnsdall held mass just days after a deadly EF-4 tornado. The tornado damaged the church, but it was left standing. Next to it, the ...

Can Pope Leo XIV's boyhood church — St. Mary of the Assumption — be saved ? The church’s owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

PARKERSBURG — St. Margaret-Mary Catholic Church in Parkersburg acquired two pieces of art over the past few years. One is the painting “Madonna of the Ro ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in Steger.

This stained glass window of “Mary the Virgin” has been a fixture in the sanctuary at St. Mary’s Church for decades. Mark Guydish Photo The oil painting of the Crucifixion with Mary the ...

The pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Wilkes-Barre, the oldest Catholic church in Luzerne County, has recommended closing the location. (Bob Kalinowski / Staff Photographer) ...