This Day in Diocesan History for January 18

1869

A group of Germans living in the West End meet to plan the establishment of a new parish, which would become St. Martin

 
 
1910

Bishop J. F. Regis Canevin instructs Fr. August Black to establish a new parish in Homewood, which became Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament

 
 
1925

Dedication of the first St. Cyril of Alexandria Church, Brighton Heights

 
 
1954

Dedication of the third St. Peter Church, South Side

 
 
1959

Ground broken for the second Immaculate Conception Church, Carnegie

 
 
Rev. August P. Black, the first pastor of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Homewood