Churches in the West Texas Vicinity Page: 3
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Founded in 1895 by a Father Maas from Ft. Davis,
early congregations used a Tool store house for mass.
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The community had two Catholic schools, .St Mary's
for the .English sp-eakinng an-nd Guaadalupe school for the
Spanish s;oeaking. The two were consolidated in the
Guadalure school house, inow St. Mary's 3:!hool.
The ug.istinian Recoll ect Order ciae to t'he -tarish
in 19.31 ti sacristy arn distinctive towers were added in
19!c2 andc the cn.urch ,ras remodele d in 19.59 by Father
,Au.ustine Cuartero. it has been rer;odeled again since
then.
At the present time the scl:ool has an enrollment
of about ninety and is staffed byF three Incarnate 'iWord
nuns, ,iste:. Mary Grace, Drincipal; -3:i..ste"s Mary Rita and
.iXnna Il.isa, and four la: teachers. Th:e p-astor is the
Revrerend Alfred 1alvan,
Statement by Concha Villanueva, Interview,, Marfa,
Texas, November, 1970.
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Jurado, Delia. Churches in the West Texas Vicinity, paper, December 7, 1970; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth39399/m1/4/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Marfa Public Library.