Pawtucket priest uses social media to attract a ‘Mass mob’ to show off beautiful church

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. — A thriving parish of mill workers erected a towering 1,000-seat church in honor of St. John the Baptist in the late 1920s.

Its stained-glass windows, considered among the finest in the United States, came from Paris along with prize-winning murals that drew critical acclaim in French newspapers before they were packed and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to Pawtucket.

The parish flourished until Route 95 came to Pawtucket in the 1960s and about 600 families lost their homes, according to the church’s modern-day pastor, who has embraced an unusual strategy for recapturing some of the attention and financial support that went by the wayside decades ago.

Hoping to show off the stunning church, the Rev. Gerald Harbour recently appealed for something called the “Mass mob,” which has nothing to do with the Mafia.

Source: www.providencejournal.com

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