Mr. President. in 1843. Rev. Patrick OKelly and 13 families. mostly Irish immigrants. founded St. Augustines Roman Catholic Church. In 1846. they built a small wooden framed building in Deerfield Township. Livingston County. MI. thus establishing a spiritual home for the congregation. Some 50 years later. in 1895. Rev. George J. Maurer directed the construction of a brick and hammered stone building on the original site of the first church. And that charming structure. lovingly maintained and restored by its parishioners. is still being used for daily worship by over 290 families. For 150 years. St. Augustines has been a place of worship and a center for community events in this rural township.
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