2025-05-122025-05-122013-01-20https://hdl.handle.net/10929/146015The parish was established in 1842 to serve the needs of working-class German-speaking immigrants who worked in Newark's factories. The first building was a wooden church which was destroyed by fire in 1856 by anti-Catholic Know Nothing elements. On that date the members of the American Protestant Association staged a grand parade in Newark. As the parade passed St. Mary's violence erupted. The marchers broke ranks and headed for St. Mary's tearing the doors off the church, shattering the stained glass windows, destroying the organ, ripping down pictures, overturning pews and reducing the statues to rubble. At one point shots rang out and one Irish Catholic Thomas McCarthy was fatally wounded. Today St. Mary's is entrusted to the monks of the Order of Saint Benedict who continue to provide spiritual and academic guidance to the community through the parish and Saint Benedict's Preparatory School.Original file name 68 St. Mary's Church copy.jpg2912x4368Each photograph within this collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Therefore, these photos may only be used in a way that is permitted by copyright and related rights legislation. The following terms of use for State Library patrons shall apply. 1. Educational Institution/student use is permitted as long as such usage adheres to all copyright and related rights legislation. In these instances, these photographs may only be used for educational or historical purposes. 2. Non-Commercial use is permitted without permission from the rights holder, as long as such use adheres to all copyright and related right legislation. 3. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for commercial purposes without the direct permission of the rights-holder. 4. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for political purposes. 5. Users must always give appropriate credit to the photographer. The credit may not in any way suggest the right's holder endorses the user or their use of the photographs. 6. Photographs may be copied or redistributed in any medium or format as long as such use does not violate copyright and related rights legislation. 7. Users may remix, transform, and rebuild upon the original photographs as long as it does not violate copyright and related rights legislation.St. Mary's Catholic ChurchSt. Mary's ChurchSaint Benedict's Preparatory SchoolChurchArchdiocese of NewarkU.S. National Register of Historic PlacesNew Jersey Register of Historic PlacesNewarkEssex CountyGatewayThe Gateway RegionNew JerseyNJJerseyThe Garden State