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St. Mary of the Assumption Church (commonly referred to as St. Mary's) is a Roman Catholic church in Dedham, Massachusetts and the Archdiocese of Boston. The first church was constructed in Dedham Centre in 1857 and it was formally established as a parish in 1866. In 1880 the parish built a larger church on High Street, towards East Dedham. The laying of the cornerstone for this "cathedral in the wilderness" attracted more than 4,000 people, and special trains were run from Boston and Norwood. The new church would not be completed until 1900, and was dedicated by Archbishop Sebastiano Martinelli, the papal delegate. Today the church is thriving, and hosts one of the largest Life Teen programs in the country. ==Early history== The history of Catholicism in Dedham begins in 1758, only 120 years after the settlement of the Contentment Plantation and fully two decades before the American Revolution. During the French and Indian War the British expelled over 11,000 Acadians from what is today Nova Scotia. Eleven of them resettled in Dedham, and though the town and the Massachusetts Bay colony were both officially Congregationalist, they were allowed to reside here as French Neutrals.〔 until they returned to Canada in 1760. For the next century the few Catholics who lived in Dedham would have to travel 16 miles to St. Joseph's in Roxbury to attend Mass.〔 The first Mass in Dedham was celebrated in 1843 in the home of Daniel Slattery with eight Catholics present.〔 For the next three years Slattery’s 17-year-old brother-in-law would bring Fr. James Strain from Waltham and back each Sunday to minister to the needs of the small congregation.〔 By then, in 1846, the Catholic community in Dedham was well established enough that the town became part of the mission of St. Joseph’s Church in Roxbury.〔 The flood of Irish immigrants escaping the potato famine necessitated holding Mass in the Temperance Hall, often by Father Patrick O’Beirne,〔〔 and occasionally in the Crystal Palace on Washington Street. Parishioners came from Dedham, South Dedham, West Dedham, and West Roxbury. During the Civil War, "no church in Dedham lost so many men in proportion to their numbers."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Mary's Church (Dedham, Massachusetts)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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