To celebrate Fr. McGivney’s beatification, his old parish is pulling out all the stops aleteia.org

After a basketball-sized chunk of plaster came crashing down in the front of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Connecticut, early in 2019, the parish called in engineers to take a closer look at the 145-year-old Gothic church. While the structural and architectural state of St. Mary’s were found to be sound, the plaster lining the interior walls and ceiling was determined to be “aged out” and unstable.

Thus began a months-long renovation to stabilize the plaster, a project that was completed in time for this summer’s Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention.

St. Mary’s is the church where Fr. Michael J. McGivney founded the Knights in 1882 and the place where he is interred. The church, near Yale University, will be the focal point of a weekend-long celebration beginning Friday, as Fr. McGivney will be beatified, a major step on his way to being proclaimed a saint…

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