Monday, March 31, 2008

Santa Maria, St. Raymond Ave., Westchester Square



Above, Santa Maria church on St. Raymond Avenue.  Parker Street is at the right side of the building. Zerega Avenue and the school is to the left.  For the Mass schedule, please see the parish website.

See pages 484 and 485 for the 1926 foundation of the parish of Santa Maria at St. Raymond Avenue and Parker Street, east of Castle Hill Avenue and Parkchester. The present church was remodeled in 1936. The rectory address is 2352 St. Raymond Ave., Bronx NY 10462, telephone 718-828-2380.
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Three blocks from the church is the Santa Maria parish school, located at 1510 Zerega Avenue, Bronx NY 10462, filling the block from Glebe Avenue to Frisby Ave. The school was created in 1951, and is staffed, in part, by religious sisters, the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The website for Santa Maria parish school is here.  The school also has a Facebook page.
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From the website of the Misioneros Idente, it would seem that three parishes near to each other (Santa Maria, Our Lady of Solace, St. Dominic) are staffed by this congregation, founded by Dr. Fernando Rielo. The Catholic Directory would seem to indicate that they live at Santa Maria rectory.
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The October 22, 2020, issue of Catholic New York has a front page story of the dedication of a shrine to Blessed Clelia Merioni, foundress of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The shrine was dedicated at Immaculate Conception church, Tuckahoe, on October 17, 2002. The article mentions the now-closed Sacred Heart Private School on Zerega Avenue. It also mentions the ASCJ provincialate in Hamden, Connecticut. A link to this article may not work.

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