Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Manhattan)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel of New York The Madonna of Manhattan
The Canonically crowned image out in public procession
Location	New York City, New York United States of America
Date	1884
Witness	Antonio Petrucci
Holy See approval	Pope Leo XIII Pope Pius X
Shrine	Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish

Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The facade of the church
General information
Town or city	New York, New York
Country	United States
Construction started	1884
Client	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, located at East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, United States.

The parish enshrines a vested statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel widely venerated by its devotees. Pope Leo XIII issued a Papal bull granting the image a Canonical Coronation on May 12, 1903. Pope Pius X carried over the Pontifical decree and donated a gemstone for the crown to which the ceremony occurred on July 10, 1904. It is one of the four canonically crowned images authorised by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in the United States of America.

History

Our Lady of Mount Carmel was the second Italian parish in New York City. But was the first actual Southern Italian parish. The first Italian parish is St. Anthony of Padua on Sullivan St., founded in 1859 and officially incorporated in 1866 when the neighborhood had a large Northern Italian population. Since the first feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on July 16, 1881, its annual feast has been a major event in East Harlem, at one time attended by more than 100,000.^[1] The church cornerstone was laid on September 20, 1884. A new school and gymnasium were added to the church on September 1, 1965.

The parish shrine of the Virgin Mary was crowned by in the name of the Pope on July 10, 1904.^[2]

Our Lady of Mount Carmel image

The parish church enshrines an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, brought by an Italian immigrant and saloon owner, Antonio Petrucci from Polla, in Salerno, Italy. The statue replaces a poster image used by Italian immigrants devotees who first settled in the area.

The image, garnering devotion was authorised to crown by Pope Leo XIII by a pontifical decree dated May 12, 1903. Pope Pius X approved the Canonical coronation under his pontificate by granting an Emerald gemstone on July 10, 1904 via Archbishop John Murphy Farley. The image is widely venerated by its faithful, who sometimes refer to the image as the Madonna of East Harlem.

Today

Every year on the second weekend of August, the Giglio Society of East Harlem holds an Italian festival on the streets of the Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church. The festival or "feast" includes the Society performing the "Dancing Giglio". The dancing of the Giglio is an Italian tradition which began over 125 years ago on the street of East Harlem.

In 2013, the parish was placed under the care of the Polish Pallottine fathers.^[3] The church currently offers masses in English, Italian, Spanish, Haitian French, Polish and Latin.

Since December 2013 the pastor of the parish is Fr. Marian Wierzchowski SAC.

References

Bibliography

• The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950, Third Edition. 2010. 

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