The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic

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under the authority of the

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, located at Beach Avenue and Gleason Avenue,

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, New York City. The parish was established in 1927.''See'' Thomas J. Shelley, ''The Archdiocese of New York: the Bicentennial History,'' (New York:

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/ Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), p.484, 486.Joe McMahon
Bronx Catholic "Blessed Sacrament, Beach Ave., Soundview"
June 8, 2009, "This is an attempt to index references to The Bronx in "The Archdiocese of New York: the Bicentennial History," (Retrieved May 12, 2011) It was merged into the parish of the Holy Family in 2015.

Holy Family

The Parish of the Holy Family was established in 1896, from St. Raymond's Church. A frame church in Gothic Revival style was built in 1898, followed by a rectory in 1904. The parish school was established in 1913.

Pastors

History

Blessed Sacrament Church was founded in 1927 from the parish of the Holy Family. The Gothic Revival church was dedicated by Cardinal Hayes on September 29, 1929. Holy Family is located in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. In 2015 Blessed Sacrament Parish was merged with the Parish of the Holy Family.

Buildings

Like many other parish churches with parochial schools in this city, the built structure is a combination with the church on the ground floor and school classrooms above. The cornerstone for the combined structures is dated 1928. It was completed in 1929. An additional brick schoolhouse has a cornerstone dated 1955. The rectory address is 1170 Beach Avenue, Bronx NY 10472.

School

The school was founded around 1929. Judge

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attended it from kindergarten through eighth grade, and graduated top of her class in 1968. She was the

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and had a near-perfect attendance record.

References

External links

Parish of Holy Family, Blessed Sacrament & St. John Vianney website
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