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Holy Cross Cemetery

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Location	:	Jefferson County, USA
Description	:	Many of the parishioners of Holy Cross Parish and St. Charles parish are descendants of Catholic pioneers from Maryland – primarily St. Mary’s County and Charles County. Most of the Marylanders settled in Marion, Washington and Nelson Counties. At the very beginning there was no church building. Mass was said in people’s homes – which happened every few months or so. The first church was built of logs, the building of which was overseen by Father Charles Nerinx, who was the first resident pastor of St. Charles Church from 1805 to 1824. The first brick church... Read More	Many of the parishioners of Holy Cross Parish and St. Charles parish are descendants of Catholic pioneers from Maryland – primarily St. Mary’s County and Charles County. Most of the Marylanders settled in Marion, Washington and Nelson Counties. At the very beginning there was no church building. Mass was said in people’s homes – which happened every few months or so. The first church was built of logs, the building of which was overseen by Father Charles Nerinx, who was the first resident pastor of St. Charles Church from 1805 to 1824. The first brick church was built in 1829, and the present-day church in 1906. In 1986 St. Charles was 200 years old. There is an adjoining cemetery. It’s the second-oldest parish West of the Allegheny Mountains and will celebrate it’s 225th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 16. St. Charles was established in St. Mary a year after Holy Cross Church was formed in 1785 at Holy Cross, Kentucky. “The Bells of St. Mary’s” is in honor of the name of the community – St. Mary, Kentucky – and the seminary of the same name that was just a mile or two up the road. St. Charles Church sits on a hill surrounded by a rambling parish cemetery in the Marion County countryside near Loretto, Kentucky, just a field away from the original site of the first Sisters of Loretto community. The parish’s roots are deep and so many of the nearby Catholic churches were carved out of St. Charles parish. St. Charles Church figures prominently in Kentucky’s Catholic history. When the Sisters of Loretto formed in 1812, they lived in a small cabin a field away from St. Charles. They trudged across the field to attend Mass at the parish. The parish also lies just up the road from the now-closed but once auspicious St. Mary’s College and Seminary. A host of priests for the Archdiocese of Louisville – and for dioceses around the nation – were educated there. So were several Kentucky governors and some U.S. congressmen and senators. It appears that Holy Cross Cemetery, which exists today in Marion County, Kentucky was originally located in what was part of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Washington County was established in 1792 from land taken from Nelson County. It was the first county created by the Commonwealth of Kentucky after its separation from Virginia. Nelson County was the fourth county created in what is now Kentucky. It was formed from Jefferson County, Virginia in 1784, shortly after the Revolutionary War. Virginia has twice named counties Jefferson County for one of its most revered sons, Thomas Jefferson, and lost the county each time to the formation of another state - lost to Jefferson County, Kentucky when the state of Kentucky was formed from part of Virginia in 1792. Marion County, Kentucky was created 25 January 1834 from Washington County to the North. Marion County is Kentucky's most Catholic county. The first Catholic settlers in Kentucky came to Holy Cross in the western part of the county.

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