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L’Église de St. Jean Baptiste, New York

A comment of Mr. Hiss on Fr. Sibley’s blog mentioned the Church of St. Jean Baptiste on the Upper East Side. There are few churches in New York, let alone all America, which are as beautiful as St. Jean Baptiste (or “St. JB’s” as people ridiculously call it). A restoration only a few years ago brought the church back to its full splendour.

It used to be the national parish of the French Canadians in New York, hence the French name, and is now home to the National Shrine of St. Anne, formerly further downtown in what became St. Anne’s Armenian Catholic Cathedral (one of a few beautiful and very active church buildings being pawned off by the wretched bureaucrats who run the Archdiocese of New York).

The church is open most of the day and definitely worth stepping into even if you only have a few minutes. Their parish website (link above) has a somewhat detailed history of the parish and the architecture of the church.

The parish and girls’ high school are now staffed by priests of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament as well as sisters from the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, and the Body of Christ is adored all day long except during Mass.

Published at 8:54 am on Thursday 16 December 2004. Categories: Architecture Church New York Tags: , , , .
Comments

You sir have nade an old man very very happy with your site and especially with these pics of St.Jeans for I graduated grom St.Anns in 1950..Every Friday we marched to St.Jeans accros the street for Consecration..

I shall return…Your site is too much for a two hour read…
THANK YOU SIR

— jim midgley 24 Mar 2008 2:10 am
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