BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 4.7.23//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:John McCloskey was the 1st united states catholic christan c ardinal 1875 + lithography DTSTAMP:20250331T172232Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:229-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":troy@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n \n\n\n\n John McCloskey was the 1st united states catholi c christan cardinal 1875\, march 15th\n\n As arch bishop of New York State he made the first parish for Black Catholics in New York.\n\n It was St. Benedict the Moor organized in 1883. This parish was established in an old Unitarian temple on 210 Bleecker Street.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n photo sources \n\n St benedict the moor- don't know photographer\n\n https://www.blackca tholicmessenger.org/st-benedict-the-moor-manhattan-sold/\n\n\n\n \n\n lith ography of Mccloskey\, 1878 saxony &\; o'neill  - a lithograph is made on a flat surface where drawing is made of an oil based material...so 1) you take any flat material available or after process: stone/metal/wood/pl astic. 2) Draw on it with an oily material\, for example crayola crayons\, but it must be thick for the sequent layers will eat into it... 3)then yo u make a mixture of water+ gum arabic with nitric acid and layer it on\, t his is to coat the parts not drawn on with a material that will not accept ink\, as it is aqueous it will displace away from the crayola crayon. 4) now set\, you can wet the surface with water and 5) and roll over the wate r with ink and a roller\, a dry ink\, but experiment\, and the ink will re pel away from the water and to the ink. 5) apply paper and press. \n\n\n\ n old instructions\n\n\n\n After the oil-based image is put on the surface \, a solution of gum arabic in water was applied\, the gum sticking only t o the non-oily surface. During printing\, water adhered to the gum arabic surfaces and was repelled by the oily parts\, while the oily ink used for printing did the opposite.\n\n https://archive.org/details/catholicchurche s01shea/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Lithograph Print\ n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Mokulito which is Lithography on wood - m oku is the nipppon word for wood- I need to try this\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n \n\n\n From the Black Catholic Messenger\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n St. Benedict t he Moor in Manhattan sold to Taiwanese billionaire\n\n The first Black Cat holic parish north of the Mason-Dixon line has been sold by the Archdioces e of New York.\n\n\n\n Nate Tinner-Williams\n\n January 17\, 2023 . 7:18 A M\n\n\n\n St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church in New York City\, the fir st Black parish north of the Mason-Dixon line\, has been sold to a develop er in a $16M deal.\n\n\n\n The historic property in Hell’s Kitchen\, whi ch over its 154-year existence has hosted prominent Black Catholics from a round the country\, had been deconsecrated since 2017. The buyer is the JM M Charitable Foundation\, a nonprofit associated with Taiwanese billionair e Walter Wang.\n\n\n\n “'It was the first Catholic church [in NYC] to we lcome Blacks and was always used to call attention to racial prejudices in America\,” said the late Auxiliary Bishop Emerson Moore of New York in 1983\, upon the church’s centennial.\n\n\n\n “'This was the stepping s tone for blacks from the Village to Harlem.”\n\n\n\n The church by those years had become largely Hispanic\, according to the New York Times\, and had moved from its original location in Greenwich Village\, where the con gregation was founded in 1883. In the late 1890s\, the current property wa s acquired for the Black Catholic group from a German Protestant congregat ion.\n\n\n\n The golden years of St. Benedict the Moor soon followed\, wit h thousands of registered members and a congregation made up of roughly 50 % converts\; the church served as a national parish for all the African Am ericans of the city.\n\n\n\n Black Catholics and others also chose the par ish for significant events\, including the first stateside High Mass of Ve nerable Augustus Tolton\, held at the original property following his 1886 ordination in Rome as the first openly African-American Catholic priest. Fr Norman Dukette\, the first Black priest ordained in Detroit\, assisted at the parish's golden jubilee Mass\, held at the Hell's Kitchen location in 1933.\n\n\n\n St. Benedict the Moor was also known to host “lyceums \,” discussion groups that attracted Black luminaries such as Hubert Har rison\, John E. Bruce\, and Arturo Schomburg\; by this\, the church became known as the “intellectual center of the New York Negro.” The famed B lack physician and diplomat John E. W. Thompson was counted among the chur ch’s notable parishioners.\n\n\n\n The first African-American Catholic s eminarian in history\, DC area native William Augustine Williams\, moved t o New York later in life and served as the parish sacristan at St. Benedic t the Moor until his death in 1901. Like Tolton\, he had been born a slave and was renowned upon returning to the US as a well-educated Black polygl ot.\n\n\n\n The nation’s third-oldest surviving order of Black nuns\, th e Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary\, was also connected to the parish\, opening a nursery and convent there as well as operating an associated orphanage.\n\n\n\n Though St. Benedict the Moor was at one p oint known as the most integrated within the New York archdiocese\, within a few decades of its prime most of the neighborhood’s African Americans had moved to Harlem\, portending the parish’s decline as a center of Bl ack life.\n\n\n\n By the turn of the millennium\, the church was rumored f or closure—a common fate for Black Catholic parishes following the relig ious decline of the late 20th century and the developments of desegregatio n. St. Benedict the Moor ceased operation as a worship site in 2007\, and was deconsecrated a decade later.\n\n\n\n Under the new purchase agreement \, consented to by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York on January 6\, the c hurch itself must remain intact for at least 20 years\, but can be repurpo sed for other (non-profane) uses. The fate of a New York City Landmark app lication for the church\, filed in 2017\, is unknown.\n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250315 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR