Parish Memorial Tablet
This memorial shrine, as this tablet explains, was dedicated to the 577 members of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament Parish of East Orange, New Jersey, a parish that no longer exists due to changes in that city's demographics, who fought in World War II.
Of the 577 men and women from that church who fought in the Second World War, only fourteen died, a miraculous survival record. Ironically, the parish itself closed as its mainly white parishoners moved farther away from nearby Newark and mostly Protestant blacks moved in. East Orange, New Jersey is now one of the most overwhlemingly black cities in America.
The shrine was moved out of its original location and moved to its current location in Caldwell.
The shrine was rededicated there in 1999.
Parish Memorial Tablet
This memorial shrine, as this tablet explains, was dedicated to the 577 members of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament Parish of East Orange, New Jersey, a parish that no longer exists due to changes in that city's demographics, who fought in World War II.
Of the 577 men and women from that church who fought in the Second World War, only fourteen died, a miraculous survival record. Ironically, the parish itself closed as its mainly white parishoners moved farther away from nearby Newark and mostly Protestant blacks moved in. East Orange, New Jersey is now one of the most overwhlemingly black cities in America.
The shrine was moved out of its original location and moved to its current location in Caldwell.
The shrine was rededicated there in 1999.