St. Patrick's Catholic Church is a historic

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church on the east side of Hwy. 90 in

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, United States. It was built in 1924 and added to the

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in 1988. The Loxley Public Library currently occupies the building. Originally dedicated to Saint Raphael, it was one of four small mission churches in central Baldwin County built to serve Catholic immigrant workers, many from the Midwest. In 1974, St. Raphael, St. Gabriel in Summerdale, St. Matthew in Elsanor, and Infant Jesus of

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in Silverhill were closed and the congregations merged into the new parish of St. Patrick, which is located centrally in Robertsdale, AL.

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