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Capilla de San Isidro

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:16, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48

Capilla de San Isidro

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Built in about 1894, Capilla de San Isidro is a Catholic church in Los Fuertes in the San Luis Valley . The church is dedicated to St. Isidore, the patron saint of farming, and continues to play an important role in the local community, with Mass celebrated in Spanish during the summer. In 2013 the...

Capilla de San Juan Bautista (Church of Saint John the Baptist)

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:21, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in La Garita in the northwestern San Luis Valley , Capilla de San Juan Bautista was built in 1924–26 as a Catholic mission church. It replaced an earlier church on the same site, which served as the area’s parish church from 1879 to 1895 but burned down in 1924. After the church was...

Capilla de Viejo San Acacio

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 12:58, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Founded in the 1850s or 1860s by Hispano settlers near the Culebra River, the Catholic Capilla de Viejo San Acacio in the San Luis Valley is the oldest non–Native American religious space in Colorado. Over the years the church has had many repairs and renovations to stabilize the structure, as well...

Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception

Added by yongli on 08/26/2016 - 16:12, last changed on 03/04/2021 - 01:07
Completed in 1912, the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, on East Colfax Avenue in Denver , was the result of decades of effort on the part of the city’s early Catholic community. Sometimes called the “Pinnacled Glory of the West,” the building’s elegant Gothic Revival design and twin...

Holy Ghost Catholic Church

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 10:51, last changed on 12/22/2019 - 01:07
Located at 1900 California Street in Denver , Holy Ghost Catholic Church is known for its long tradition of ministering to downtown Denver’s poor and homeless, as well as for its Renaissance-style church building designed in 1923 by Jules Jacques Benois Benedict . For nearly twenty years, however,...

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 11:01, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in Chama in the San Luis Valley , Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción (Church of the Immaculate Conception) is a Catholic church built in 1938 under the supervision of Father Onofre Martorell . It continues to serve as an important community center, with Mass celebrated in Spanish during...

Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 11:49, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in San Pedro in the San Luis Valley , Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo (Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) is a Catholic church built in 1933–34 under the supervision of Father Onofre Martorell . The cruciform-plan Territorial Adobe building continues to serve as an important community...

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:51, last changed on 11/16/2022 - 16:41
The Sacred Heart Cathedral at 1025 North Grand Avenue in Pueblo was dedicated as Sacred Heart Church in 1913. A rare example of Gothic Revival architecture in Pueblo, the cathedral demonstrates the continued importance of Catholicism in the history of Colorado. In 1942 the Vatican responded to the...

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Added by yongli on 01/21/2021 - 16:17, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 17:40
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917) was an Italian Catholic nun who came to the United States in 1889 as a missionary tasked with ministering to the country’s growing population of Italian immigrants . Over the next three decades, during her missionary work, Cabrini established sixty-seven...

St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 16:43, last changed on 05/07/2020 - 10:36
Located at what was once the corner of Ninth and Lawrence Streets (101 Lawrence Way, Denver , CO 80204) in the Auraria Higher Education Center , St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church was built in 1926 to serve the Latino community of west Denver. The first church for Spanish-speaking Catholics in Denver,...
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