The first Catholic church in Cleveland was the first to be closed: the last Mass was said at St. Mary's on-the-Flats in Jan. 1886 and the decaying building razed 2 years later. Ohio Historic Records ...

ST. MALACHI CHURCH was organized in 1865 by Bp.AMADEUS RAPPE out of the large ST. PATRICK'S PARISH, to place an IRISH parish closer to residential sections on Cleveland's near west side. Fr. James ...