Diocese of Trenton
Roman Rite
St. Mary Parish owes its origin to a group of Irish immigrants who had come to the Bordentown-White Hill (now Fieldsboro) area in 1831. They had been recruited to provide the labor needed to build the Camden and Amboy Railroad and the Delaware and Raritan Canal. These immigrants brought their strong Catholic faith with them from the Emerald Isle and for the first few years had to depend on occasional Masses said in one of their homes by priests travelling on horseback through the sparsely settled region of South Jersey.
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