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St. Ignatius Church is a Jesuit Roman Catholic church located at 740 N. Calvert St in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Mt. Vernon is located north of downtown Baltimore and is considered the city’s center of history and culture. The church is dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). ==History== In 1852, the new Archbishop of Baltimore, Francis Kenrick, asked the local Jesuit Provincial to open a new college in response to petitions from the newly elected, anti-Catholic Know Nothing party to ban Catholic teachings from public schools in Maryland. As a result, Loyola College opened its doors in 1852 and moved to its former location on Calvert and Madison streets in 1855. St. Ignatius Church was originally built to accompany the adjoining Loyola College, at 700 N Calvert, prior to the college’s move in 1922 to an Evergreen Campus in North Baltimore. The church opened on August 15, 1856 on the Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary. On 20 September 1857 the chapel of St Peter Claver was dedicated, where masses were provided for the black population.〔Diane Batts Morrow, ''Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), p. 253.〕 This congregation in 1864 obtained its own parish church, St. Francis Xavier.〔Harold Mcdougall, ''Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community'' (Temple University Press, 1993), p. 27.〕 Major renovations were carried out in 1870, the transparent glass windows replaced with new stained glass. New pews to seat about six hundred people were added. A ceiling painting of the Assumption of Mary by Wilhelm Lamprecht was added. The following year, the newly renovated church was decorated for the public celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pius IX's election to the papacy; gaslight illuminations were installed for the occasion but could not be used because of adverse weather.〔''(The Grand Demonstration, in Baltimore and Washington D.C., in honor of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Election of Pius IX to the Chair of St. Peter )'' (Baltimore, 1871), pp. 26-27.〕 In 1968 a series of protests in support of the Catonsville Nine was held at the church.〔Shawn Francis Peters, ''The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era'' (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 166-168, 210-213.〕 After World War II the church had seen a sharp drop in the number of parishioners as many city residents moved to the suburbs. This led the church to “refashion their mission and ministry” in the 1990’s to bring Catholics back to Mt. Vernon. In 1991, the church underwent a $1.7 million renovation to separate the sanctuary from the entrance to give parishioners a place to gather before and after mass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Ignatius Church, Baltimore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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