St. Mary's Catholic Church

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Title

St. Mary's Catholic Church

Identifier

2022.006.035

Type

image

Description

St. Mary's Church was built in the 1940s when the congregation of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church grew too large. "Lupe Yglesias reflected on the origins of St. Mary's Church, 'Well, you know, before I forget, I was just thinking, all the Mexican ladies got together. We needed a church. So they would all - Concha Viramontes and some other ladies - would go once a month to collect from every Spanish family. One dollar a month to build the church. So actually, the Mexican people helped come up with that church, then it became St. Mary's.'" (Vasquez and Carpio, 32)

Subject

Community Life in Redlands
Mexican American History
Religious History
St. Mary's Church
Catholicism

Spatial Coverage

Redlands (Calif.)

Temporal Coverage

1940s

Creator

Unknown

Date

1940s

Contributor

Inland Mexican Heritage

Format

.tif

Language

English

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Bibliographic Citation

Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012, 32.

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