St Gregory Catholic Church
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St Gregory Catholic Church
St Gregory Catholic Church
Backstory and Context
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Details of the construction phase:
19 February 1965
The Parish of St Gregory Barbarigo was formed when the Archbishop appointed Fr Brendan Murphy as Parish Priest, to found the parish for the newly built Wyndford Estate and parts of the parishes of the Immaculate Conception and St Charles.
17 March 1965
A lot of work went on to find a base to say mass and to house Fr Murphy. Then, at Easter, Father Hickey, Parish Priest of the neighbouring Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption, had just completed a new Presbytery and St. Gregory’s were able to acquire their old house in Bilsland Drive to serve as a temporary Presbytery for 6 years.
St Mary’s School Annexe, which stood on Maryhill Road, had the two rear classrooms transformed into a little oratory and the first public mass was celebrated for the parish on St Patrick’s Day 17 March 1965.
28 March 1964
Permission was granted for Sunday masses to be held in nearby Shakespeare St School, and the first two public masses were celebrated on 28 March. Thereafter, every Sunday morning an army of workers went into operation transporting an altar, seating, vestments, tabernacle, vessels etc. in order that mass could be celebrated.
February 1971
Archbishop Scanlan laid the foundation stone of the £160,000 church. A piece of rock from Massabielle hillside at Lourdes where our Lady stood during the apparitions to St Bernadette and where the spring of miraculous water has continued to flow, was enclosed in the casket placed under the stone. A set of Britain’s new decimal coins was also enclosed.
Sources
Accessed September 11th 2020. https://issuu.com/keywest/docs/st_gregorys_-_a5_-_50_years_draft_1.
Accessed September 11th 2020. https://c20society.org.uk/c20-churches/st-gregory .
Scotland's Churches Trust. Accessed September 11th 2020. https://scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/st-gregory-barbarigo-wyndford-glasgow/ .
Jonathan Thacker - licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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