Mansfield, TX, United States
St. Jude Catholic Church. In the late nineteenth century, Father Thomas Hagerty, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Waxahachie, traveled by train once each month to celebrate Mass with the six Catholic families in this area. In 1898, a small frame church was erected on land donated by local mer
chant J. W. Wright. By 1928, the parish had grown to twenty-eight families. They began to meet in a red brick church erected on this site and dedicated as St. James Catholic Church in November of that
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