On the Sunday following Easter, the Pope's death, and his own father's passing - Bryan found himself jogging in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early morning. Feeling compelled to go to Mass after that very fateful week, he began looking for a Catholic Church. He looked up, and saw a large steeple. Meandering through the city streets, he came upon the large Church, noted when Mass began, and headed back to the room to shower.
He returned for Mass, and when it was over, asked someone the name of the Church. "I don't know?" was the reply, "but it is on a large plaque outside, it is rather long."
Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church The Most Holy Redeemer - aka » the Redemptorist . . .
"Robert J. ****, a retired sergeant in the New Orleans Police Department and a Louisiana state fire marshal, died Wednesday of a stroke at ***** Regional Medical Center. He was 62. Mr. L*** was born in New Orleans and lived in Mandeville. He graduated from Redemptorist High School . . . "
I did some reading on the history of the Church Bryan happened into, especially after the striking chance of it's name. I found the following:
"In 1864, one out of every four New Yorkers was born in Ireland, and one out of every six New Yorkers was born in Germany.
Most New York City Catholics of that era were poor immigrants.
The Germans, lived mainly in the four wards of the lower East Side. They tended to keep their distance from the Irish and desired to have their own parochial schools, hospital, orphanage and even a separate German Catholic cemetery. As early as 1833 they got their own German national parish, St. Nicholas on East Second Street, founded by Father John Raffeiner, the pioneer German priest in New York. Father John Neumann, who was canonized in 1977, celebrated his first Mass in the church on June 26, 1836. However, St. Nicholas Church was soon overshadowed by a second German church, the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on East Third Street. In 1851 the Redemptorist Fathers, who administered the parish, replaced the original wooden church with the present stone building which could accommodate 3,500 worshipers. For many years it was the unofficial German Catholic cathedral in New York.
Ethnic rivalry sometimes flared between New York's Irish and German Catholics. In 1847 the Redemptorists established a German church on the lower West Side, St. Alphonsus on Thompson Street. The Irish began to attend Mass there in large numbers, and the pastor noticed that they were contributing more in the collection than the Germans."
You'll never guess where Bob attended Elementary School? St. Alphonsus! Carol, my lovely mother-in-law, is of German heritage, dear-and-all-too-soon-departed Bob, of Irish.
A Church Bryan merely wandered in to, fell in to as a subject of happenstance . . . hello . . . hello . . .
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