Celebrating 91 years in Rock Hill and the Diocese of Charleston
St. Anne Coat of Arms
In 1919, Bishop William T. Russell of the Diocese of Charleston moved Fr. William J. Tobin from St. Peter’s to Rock Hill, where he became the first pastor of St. Anne Parish.
There were only about 20 Catholics in the city’s total population of 7500. Fr. Tobin went to work quickly, and in November 1920 a small church opened on Saluda Street, near the center of town.
The story of St. Anne parish is also the story if its people-priests, religious, and the laity-and their faith, their service and their sacrifice. As the people of St. Anne parish reflect on their parish history and contemplate the future and its challenges, they do so in the certainty that their faith, service and sacrifice have been, are and will continue to be centered on the effort to fulfill our inherited vocation: ‘Do this in memory of me.’
FIRST COMMUNION CLASS OF 2012:
Beginning this year, First Communion will be celebrated on the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. This year the feast falls on [...]
