HOME





St. John The Baptist Catholic Church (Maria Stein, Ohio)
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Located in the unincorporated community of Maria Stein, it is the home of an active congregation and has been recognized as a historic site because of its well-preserved late nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival architecture. The church was destroyed by a fire and declared a total loss during renovations in 2025. Parish history The community of St. Johns was established in 1833. When the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway expanded through Mercer County some years later, its surveyors chose a path through the small community of Maria Stein, to the west of St. Johns. As these two communities were separated by only , business interests migrated to the vicinity of the railroad,Scranton, S.S. ''History of Mercer County, Ohio and Representative Citizens''. Chicago: Biographical, 1907. and the two communities eventually merged under the name of ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Maria Stein, Ohio
Maria Stein (German language, German, literally "Mary's stone" or "Mary of the Rock") is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 1,067. The community and the Maria Stein Convent lie at the center of the area known as the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches, where a missionary priest, Father Francis de Sales Brunner, established a number of parishes for Germans, German Catholic Church, Catholics. History The community of St. Johns was established in 1833. Its name was selected because all of its early male settlers bore the name of John. When the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1846–1917), Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway expanded through Mercer County some decades later, its surveyors chose a path through the small community of Ma ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Shrine Of The Holy Relics
The Shrine of the Holy Relics in Maria Stein, Ohio, Maria Stein, Ohio is the second largest collection of relics in the United States. It is a part of the historic Maria Stein Convent. History Father Francis de Sales Brunner, the missionary who led the Society of the Precious Blood, was a collector of relics. He was responsible for the first collection of relics in Maria Stein. Over the 19th century other relics were added to the core collection as a way of protecting them from the continuous strife of 19th-century Italy. In 1892 a separate "relic chapel" was established in which Sisters of the Most Precious Blood conducted a continuous vigil. The collection of relics is the second largest in the United States with 1,100 relics, exceeded in number of relics only by Saint Anthony's Chapel (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Saint Anthony's Chapel in the Troy Hill (Pittsburgh), Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh with five thousand. Relics include body parts (usually bones) from Sa ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar, because they are the most resistant minerals to the weathering processes at the Earth's surface. Like uncemented sand, sandstone may be imparted any color by impurities within the minerals, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white, and black. Because sandstone beds can form highly visible cliffs and other topography, topographic features, certain colors of sandstone have become strongly identified with certain regions, such as the red rock deserts of Arches National Park and other areas of the Southwestern United States, American Southwest. Rock formations composed of sandstone usually allow the p ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Turret Clock
A turret clock or tower clock is a clock designed to be mounted high in the wall of a building, usually in a clock tower, in public buildings such as Church (building), churches, university buildings, and town halls. As a public amenity to enable the community to tell the time, it has a large clock face, face visible from far away, and often a striking clock, striking mechanism which rings bells upon the hours. The turret clock is one of the earliest types of clock. Beginning in 12th century Europe, towns and monasteries built clocks in high towers to strike bells to call the community to prayer. Public clocks played an important timekeeping role in daily life until the 20th century, when accurate watches became cheap enough for ordinary people to afford. Today the time-disseminating functions of turret clocks are not much needed, and they are mainly built and preserved for traditional, decorative, and artistic reasons. To turn the large hands and run the striking train, the me ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Steeple (architecture)
In architecture, a steeple is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religious structure. They might be stand-alone structures, or incorporated into the entrance or center of the building. Architecture Towers are a common element of religious architecture worldwide and are generally viewed as attempts to reach skyward toward heavens and the divine. Towers were not a part of Christian churches until about AD 600, when bell towers first came into use. At first they were fairly modest and entirely separate structures from churches. Over time, they were incorporated into the church building and capped with ever-more-elaborate roofs until the steeple resulted. Some wooden steeples are built with large wooden structural members arranged like tent poles and braced diagonally inside both with wood and steel. The st ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a dean. Catholic usage In the Catholic Church, Can.374 §2 of the Code of Canon Law grants to bishops the possibility to join together several neighbouring parishes into special groups, such as ''vicariates forane'', or deaneries. Each deanery is headed by a vicar forane, also called a dean or archpriest, who is—according to the definition provided in canon 553—a priest appointed by the bishop after consultation with the priests exercising ministry in the deanery. Canon 555 defines the duties of a dean as:Vicars Forane (Cann. 553–555)
from the

picture info

Sebastian, Ohio
Sebastian (also St. Sebastian) is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in northern Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Mercer County, Ohio, United States.DeLorme. ''Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer''. 7th ed. Yarmouth, Maine, Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, 54. . Its elevation is 932 feet (284 m), and it is located at (40.4442136, -84.5166205). Located at the intersection of Sebastian Road and County Road 716-A,Brown, Mary Ann. ''Ohio Historic Inventory Nomination: St. Sebastian Catholic Church''. Ohio Historical Society, February 1977. the community lies south of the city of Celina, Ohio, Celina, the county seat of Mercer County, and nearly northwest of the village of Chickasaw, Ohio, Chickasaw. By far the most significant building in the community is St. Sebastian's Catholic Church (Sebastian, Ohio), St. Sebastian's Catholic Church, located at the intersection of the two roads. Built in 1904, it is the parish's third build ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Cassella, Ohio
Cassella is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Located at (40.4061581, -84.5521770), it lies at an elevation of 955 feet (291 m). Situated at the intersection of Ohio State Route 119, State Route 119 and Cassella-Montezuma Road in western Marion Township, it lies in the headwaters of Beaver Creek to the south of the city of Celina, Ohio, Celina,DeLorme. ''Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer''. 7th ed. Yarmouth, Maine, Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, 54. . the county seat of Mercer County. Other nearby communities include Maria Stein, Ohio, Maria Stein, to the east, Carthagena, Ohio, Carthagena, to the north, and St. Henry, Ohio, St. Henry, to the west. Cassella lies in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches, a heavily Catholic Church, Catholic region of rural far western Ohio that centers on Maria Stein. It grew up around the Nativity of the Blessed Vi ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church is a Catholic Church, Catholic church (building), church in Cassella, Ohio, Cassella, an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. One of several Catholic churches in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, Marion Township,Brown, Mary Ann. ''Ohio Historic Inventory Nomination: Cassella Catholic Church''. Ohio Historical Society, February 1977. it was designated a historic site because of its well-preserved 19th-century architecture. Parish history Founded in 1847,Fortin, Roger. Faith and Action: A History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati 1821-1996''. Columbus, Ohio, Columbus: Ohio State University, Ohio State UP, 2002. Nativity parish was served from its earliest years by itinerant priests of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, Society of the Precious Blood.Scranton, S.S. ''History of Mercer County, Ohio and Representative Citizens''. Chicago: Biographic ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Chickasaw, Ohio
Chickasaw is a village in Mercer County, Ohio, United States. The population was 358 at the 2020 census. History Chickasaw was laid out in 1838, and named after the Chickasaw tribe. A post office was established at Chickasaw in 1840. The village was incorporated in 1890. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 290 people, 122 households, and 80 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 131 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 99.7% White and 0.3% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.3% of the population. There were 122 households, of which 25.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.2% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 0.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.4% were non-fam ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Precious Blood Catholic Church (Chickasaw, Ohio)
Precious Blood Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Chickasaw, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1903 and still an active parish, the church historically owned two buildings constructed in its early years that have been designated as historic sites. Early parish history Chickasaw's first Catholics attended Mass at St. Sebastian's Church,Scranton, S.S. ''History of Mercer County, Ohio and Representative Citizens''. Chicago: Biographical, 1907, 239. nearly to the northwest. In 1897, the Chickasaw members erected a small church in their village for use as a chapel of ease during the week. Because the villagers typically did not own horses, they found it difficult to reach St. Sebastian's, and sympathy grew for attempting to form their own parish; accordingly, in January 1903, the parishioners from Chickasaw left the church and took their possessions with them. Little more than one week later, St. Sebastian's was destroyed by a fire (now seen as highly suspiciousBrown, Mar ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Cincinnati
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cincinnati () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church that covers all of the dioceses in the State of Ohio. As of 2025, the archbishop of Cincinnati is Robert Casey. The mother church is the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains in Cincinnati. Geography The Archdiocese of Cincinnati encompasses 230 parishes in 19 counties. Cincinnati is the ''metropolis'' of the Ecclesiastical province, Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati, which contains all of Ohio. The province contains the archdiocese and its five suffragan dioceses: * Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Cleveland * Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Columbus * Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville, Steubenville * Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, Toledo * Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Youngstown The archdiocese is bordered by: * the Diocese of Toledo to the north * the Dio ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]