Country United States Former name(s) Holy Innocents Completed 1879 Founded 1850s | Denomination Roman Catholic Church Consecrated 1879 Opened 1879 Groundbreaking 1877 | |
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Location 13370 Hwy 32, Silver Lake, Missouri Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Similar The Nativity of the Bless, St John the Evangelis, St James Roman Catholic, St Boniface Roman C, St Maurus Roman Catholic | ||
St. Rose of Lima Mission, Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Silver Lake, Missouri.
History
The parish first started as a log cabin mission church which was served by the Vincentians from Perryville in the 1850s. The first frame church was built under Father William Vincent Moore in 1865. Father Moore, who studied at St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary, would later serve as priest at St. Rose of Lima Mission church. In the early 1870s, Father Joseph Hellwing, who had just become pastor of St. Mary's at Biehle, also gave services here.
The current stone church was constructed under the direction of Father Denis D. Leyden in 1877-79. The stone church was constructed of unique colored stone blocks, and was originally known as Holy Innocents. The brothers and students at St. Mary's of the barrens donated 30,000 shingles for the roof of the new church.
The Silver Lake church was changed to St. Rose of Lima, in 1885-1886, under Father Pommer and Father E. J. Wynne, apparently as a response to the completion of the new stone church.