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Mass
was said for the first time in Bristol on May 6, 1914, in a stone house east of
town, the property of T.J. Bell. After
that, mass was said once a month in the hall over the store and in the home of
H.L. Moran. The congregation was not large, but the need of a church building
was readily realized.
In 1915, H.L. Moran
donated two lots of land and preparations were made for the building of the
church. Brick was generously donated by the Holy Sugar Company, and a large
number of parishioners contributed their time during the construction of the
building. The first mass in the new church was said by pastor, Rev. J.A. Bastien,
on the fourth Sunday in October 1915. The building, modest though it be, stands
as a monument to the devotion and generosity of the pioneers of Bristol who
built it for the glory of God and the spiritual welfare of generations to come.
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