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address:701 Fifth Avenue  Dayton, KY 41074 phone:859-261-8506 fax:859-261-0016 website:Saint Bernard Roman Catholic Church

Events Calendar

Monday, November 16th

Monday Mass

when:8:00am, Dayton, KY
venue:Saint Bernard Roman Catholic Church

Wednesday, November 18th

Wednesday Mass

when:8:00am, Dayton, KY
venue:Saint Bernard Roman Catholic Church

Saturday, November 21st

Saturday Mass

when:8:00am, Dayton, KY
venue:Saint Bernard Roman Catholic Church

Saturday Mass

when:4:00pm, Dayton, KY
venue:Saint Bernard Roman Catholic Church

Sunday, November 22nd

Sunday Mass

when:9:30am, Dayton, KY
venue:Saint Bernard Roman Catholic Church

History of Saint Bernard Church

The City of Dayton Kentucky, where Saint Bernard is located, came into being on March 1, 1848 when the General Assembly of Kentucky incorporated the town of Jamestown, the eastern half of the current city. The duly elected Trustees of Jamestown held their first meeting on June 25, 1849.

During this time there were 40 Catholic families living in Jamestown and attending mass at Corpus Christi Church, in Newport Kentucky or, using small boats, Saint Francis de Sales Church across the Ohio River in Fulton, now Cincinnati, Ohio.

Feeling the need to have their own Church the Catholics of Jamestown, in 1849, formed two societies, the St. Joseph Society for men and the St. Mary Society for the women, each having a shared goal of erecting a local Church. By 1851 these societies had acquired a parcel of land for their church on Third Avenue between Clark and Benham Streets. They joyfully nicknamed it "God's Acre."

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