ST. MARYS, OH (WLIO) - One Auglaize County church unveiled a special historical marker to commemorate its legacy and architecture on the National Register of Historic Places.
St. Patrick Catholic Church, on Glynwood Road near St. Marys, received the marker to dedicate the church's late nineteenth-century gothic revival architecture that contributes to western Ohio's "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches". The marker was provided by the Warren G. Pomeroy Foundation after the Auglaize County Historical Society applied and obtained grant funding for the marker's construction. With the marker now standing, church leaders say it's a symbol of the building's impact on the Auglaize County region.
"One of the greatest impacts is the pride in this community. There's so much pride up in this area of faith and family and agriculture, and faith really is essential to the lives around here. And to be able to see, in this flat land, the many cross-tipped churches and know that they are one of many up here and the pride of place, especially for the Irish, and so this marker gives that significance to what this holy ground means," commented Father John Tonkin, St. Isidore the Farmer, Family of Parishes.
St. Patrick joins St. Joseph and St. John's Catholic churches in marker dedications for the county's 175th anniversary.
