The cathedral, school of Mary Ann Queen

Description: The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore under the pastoral care of the Most Reverend William E. Lori, the 16th Archbishop of Baltimore. Located in the Homeland neighborhood of Baltimore City, the Cathedral has lifted hearts, minds, and voices to the Lord since its dedication in 1959. By the early 20th century, the Cathedral of the Assumption, the first Catholic Cathedral in the United States, located at Cathedral and Mulberry Streets, was proving undersized for the expanding Catholic population. Larger archdiocesan liturgies were being held elsewhere. Following the miraculous rescue of his dry goods store from the great Baltimore fire of 1904, Mr. Thomas J. O’Neill (1849-1919) bequeathed two-thirds of his estate to the Archdiocese for the construction of a new Cathedral. Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough broke ground on Baltimore’s still unnamed ‘new Cathedral’ on October 10, 1954. On the following day, Pope Pius XII instituted the new liturgical feast of Mary’s Queenship. And, thus, the Cathedral found its name. Auxiliary Bishop Jerome D. Sebastian consecrated the finished edifice on October 13, 1959. The official dedication and solemn opening to the public occurred on November 15. First as Archbishop of Krakow in 1976 and again as Pope in 1995, Karol Wojtyła / Saint John Paul II twice visited the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. On the latter trip, the Holy Father also celebrated Mass at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Earlier Cardinal Giovanni Montini, Archbishop of Milan, visited the Cathedral in 1960 before his election as Pope Saint Paul VI. In the Cathedral crypt lie several former archbishops and bishops of Baltimore whose mortal remains there await the resurrection: Bishop Jerome Aloysius Daugherty Sebastian (d. 1960), Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough (d. 1961), Lawrence Cardinal Shehan (d. 1984), Bishop Thomas Austin Murphy (d. 1991), Bishop Philip Francis Murphy (d. 1999), Archbishop William Donald Borders (d. 2010), and Bishop William Clifford Newman (d. 2017).

Price: 200 USD

Location: Perryville, Maryland

End Time: 2025-01-29T06:32:08.000Z

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