St. Michael's Church Long Branch At The Jersey Shore copy
Founded in 1886, St. Michael's Church owes its origin to the expressed needs of the times. Its presence offered a spiritual oasis for the ever increasing number of largely Irish Catholic female servants working in local non-Catholic households, as well as in the nearby hotels, casinos, and race tracks that once dotted the landscape of Long Branch's West End and Elberon Rev. James Augustine McFaul, the second Bishop of Trenton, used St. Michael Church as his summer cathedral. The Bishop's throne could be found in the sanctuary of the church where he conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation. To this day, one may notice, engraved in stone on the church steeple, a mitre, the hat worn by a Bishop, in memory of this historic time.
St. Michael's Church Long Branch At The Jersey Shore copy
Founded in 1886, St. Michael's Church owes its origin to the expressed needs of the times. Its presence offered a spiritual oasis for the ever increasing number of largely Irish Catholic female servants working in local non-Catholic households, as well as in the nearby hotels, casinos, and race tracks that once dotted the landscape of Long Branch's West End and Elberon Rev. James Augustine McFaul, the second Bishop of Trenton, used St. Michael Church as his summer cathedral. The Bishop's throne could be found in the sanctuary of the church where he conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation. To this day, one may notice, engraved in stone on the church steeple, a mitre, the hat worn by a Bishop, in memory of this historic time.