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573:"Old St. Mary's Church Official Website"
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598:"Old St. Mary's Church", Cincy Region
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430:Rev. Joseph T. Duerstock (1916–1941)
358:National Register of Historic Places
1046:St. Michael's Church, Mechanicsburg
1143:St. Philomena's Church, Cincinnati
673:The History of Old St. Mary Church
70:Front of the church with its tower
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405:in 1937, and was its first
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522:Clark, S. J. (1912).
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890:Immaculata Church
769:and Its Neighbors
671:Parish Archives,
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