9 Aug

2021

Traditional Mass at St. Emery’s Church in Fairfield, CT

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There is now a weekly Sunday Missa Cantata at St. Emery Church in Fairfield, CT at 12:30 pm. Fr. Peter Lenox is the celebrant. A lavish coffee hour follows the Mass in the church hall downstairs.

(Above) The Patron Saint of this parish is St. Emery (Emeric or Imre) of the 11th century. He was the son of King St Stephen (below), who converted Hungary. (St. Emery was also the patron saint of the now-closed St Emeric parish located in the Lower East Side in New York City)
(Above) The foundation stone of St. Stephen’s church in Bridgeport,CT, the second Hungarian national parish in the United States. In 1971 it merged with St. Emery.
(Above and Below) St Emery parish, founded in 1932, was in the care of Franciscan friars until 2011.
The church in 1932, when it was dedicated.
In 1947, the Mass celebrated on the occasion of the mortgage burning.
Procession to a parish picnic in 1947.
A May Crowning in the 1950s.

Historic photographs above from the website of Holy Family/St. Emery parish.

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