Kent County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....HISTORY BASE OF MONUMENT, HISTORY OF St PATRICK'S ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kenneth Stewart vnvalstewart2@gmail.com August 4, 2009, 12:26 am Cemetery: St Patricks Caledonia Kent Co MI Name: HISTORY OF St PATRICK'S HISTORY BASE OF MONUMENT Date Of Photograph: November 4, 2008 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/kent/photos/tombstones/stpatrickscaledo/historyb72715nph.jpg Image file size: 67.0 Kb HISTORY OF St PATRICK'S ORGANIZED ABOUT 1866MASS WAS CELEBRATED IN HOMES BY THE HORSEBACK PRIESTS TWO FRENCH PRIESTS AND REVEREND JOSE ?? IN 1868 A LOG CHURCH WAS BUILT ON LAND BY THE DEVINE FAMILY AT THE PRESENT CEMETERY LOCTION IN 1887 REV THOMAS L. WHALEN COORDINATED THE BUILDING OF CURRENT ST PACTRICK ON LAND DEEDED FROM THE LARRY O'BRIEN TO THE FIRST BISHOP OF GRAND RAPIDS REV HENRY J FICHTER THE CEMT LAND WAS A GIFT OF CATHERINE DEVINE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/kent/photos/tombstones/stpatrickscaledo/historyb72715nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb