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"The Mother Church of
Columbus" has a long and rich history, from its origins as a mission
served by the Dominicans of Somerset, Ohio, in 1833, to its present
position as a thriving center of spiritual strength in its downtown
neighborhood, now known as the Discovery District. From a handful of
parishioners in 1837, when construction began on the city's first
Catholic Church with a small number of early German Catholic families,
through a burgeoning influx of immigrants from Germany and Ireland after
1848, Holy cross became the center of Catholic Columbus. Through
post-Civil War development of the capital city as a transportation and
industrial center, into and beyond all the Twentieth Century events of
wars, the Great Depression, inner-city blight, urban renewal and
downtown revitalization, Holy Cross and its parishioners have indeed
"held high the Cross." |
