Long Island Catholic Provides View To Parishes' Past

Pupils celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of St. Joseph School in 1989. From left are Dominican Sister Mary O'Donnell, principal; Father Donald Bennett, then pastor; Bishop Markiewicz, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre; and Father Paul Butler, then associate pastor.

The staff of the Long Island Catholic recently found hundreds of historical photographs of parishes throughout the Rockville Centre Diocese, and has shared them with us in the form of a Diocesan Time Capsule.

Below are several photos from the past of St. Joseph's and St. Anne's parishes.

St. Anne parish was founded in 1929 by Father Leo T. Ennis. This original church, built in 1930, serves a number of communities in Garden City, Stewart Manor, Franklin Square, New Hyde Park and Floral Park. A school was opened in 1951 and staffed by Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. The original church and rectory of St. Joseph parish, circa 1905. The parish was attended by Our Lady of Loretto parish, Hempstead, from 1898 to 1901 and Corpus Christi parish, Mineola, from 1901 to 1905. On May 14, 1905, Father James Flynn, then pastor at Corpus Christi parish, took up residence in Garden City and established St. Joseph parish. In 1939, the School Sisters of Notre dame opened the parochial school.