Biography of saint peter claver lexington ky
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Biography of saint peter claver lexington ky
St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in Lexington to dedicate new building April 16
A year and a half after breaking ground, the new $3M worship space for St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in Lexington, Kentucky will receive an official dedication on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 16, at 10am ET.
Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv.
of Lexington will celebrate the Mass, announced by the parish pastor, Fr Norman Fischer, on March 3—the feast of St. Katharine Drexel, who helped fund the church’s original operations.
“Saint Katherine gave $8,000 to [the parish] to minister to Black Catholics in the late 1890s,” he wrote on social media that day, which is also her feast.
“She believed in us when many Black Catholics were not welcome in Lexington.”
St.
Peter Claver was one of several institutions founded with financial support from Drexel, who backed Black and Native American Catholic institutions across the country before her death in 1955. St. Peter Claver is today the only Black Catholic parish i