Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1667
Postcard not posted, showing St. Brendan’s Roman Catholic Church on Gallivan Boulevard. The date is probably soon after the church was built in 1933.
From St. Brendan’s website:
“From our first Mass in a garage on the corner of Gallivan Blvd. and Granite Avenue in 1929, until the present day, our parish has been under the patronage of St. Brendan the Navigator. Much has changed since then. A growing city has matured. Families that moved here in the Depression have endured and expanded. Homes that squeezed in families of five or eight children after WWII, now provide a quiet refuge for a mature couple. Their children have fanned out across the city and suburban developments. Each decade has brought new blood which renews the houses and yards. All of them are stamped with an ‘Originally From Dorchester’ trademark. They also have a master hallmark. Like a master jeweler’s necklace, each family is a gem that shines about the cross of faith – the faith learned here at St. Brendan’s. …. St. Brendan’s had taken pride in its faith, its ethnic heritages and its strong community.”
~ Rev. Clifton Thuma
75th Anniversary, October 2004
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