Holy Cross (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
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| Dedication: | Holy Cross |
| Type/Classification: | Territorial Parish |
| Non-Parochial: | No |
| Operated By: | Diocesan clergy |
| Venerated Saints: | None specified |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Saint Augustine |
| Deanery: | |
| Address: | 2090 SW Hwy. 19, Cross City, Florida 32628 |
| City: | Cross City, FL |
| Subdivision: | Florida |
| Country: | United States |
| County: | Dixie County |
| Website: | No website specified |
| Founded: | 1971 |
| School: | No |
| Email: | None specified |
| AI Confidence: | 4/10 |
| Review Level: | 0/5 |
Holy Cross is a territorial parish of the Diocese of Saint Augustine, serving Catholics in Cross City, Florida, and the surrounding communities of Dixie County. The parish takes its name from the Holy Cross, the wooden cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified and which stands as the central symbol of Christian redemption.
Founded in 1971, Holy Cross has served as a rural mission of the faith in the Big Bend region of north-central Florida, ministering to a small but committed Catholic community in a predominantly non-Catholic area of the state.
As a territorial parish, Holy Cross draws its congregation from the geographic bounds assigned to it by the Diocese of Saint Augustine, rather than from a particular ethnic, linguistic, or national community.
History
According to diocesan records, Holy Cross Parish was established in 1971 to serve Catholics living in and around Cross City, the county seat of Dixie County, Florida. No confirmed details regarding the parish's founding pastor, original congregation size, or early building history are documented in available sources. Limited sources suggest that, like many rural parishes established in Florida's Big Bend and Gulf Coast regions during the twentieth century, Holy Cross grew out of the pastoral needs of a small but geographically dispersed Catholic population served by circuit-riding priests from larger nearby parishes before achieving parish status.
The parish continues to serve as the Catholic presence for Cross City and the surrounding rural communities of Dixie County under the pastoral care of the Diocese of Saint Augustine.
Special features
- A rural territorial parish serving the small Catholic community of Dixie County, Florida
- Continues a decades-long Catholic presence in the Cross City area since its founding in 1971
Relics
No confirmed information regarding relics housed at Holy Cross is documented in available sources. As is customary in many Catholic churches, the altar may contain relics consistent with the rite of dedication, though specific details are not publicly available.
Architecture and Art
Exterior features
Specific documentation of the church's exterior architecture is not available in current sources. As a rural Florida parish founded in the early 1970s, the building's design likely reflects the simpler, functional church architecture common to small mission and territorial parishes of that era.
Interior features
No detailed description of the church's interior arrangement is publicly documented in available sources.
Stained Glass Windows
No confirmed information regarding stained glass windows at Holy Cross is documented in available sources.
Statues and Sculptures
No confirmed information regarding statuary at Holy Cross is documented in available sources. Devotional imagery, if present, would be expected to reflect the parish's dedication to the Holy Cross.
Other Artwork
No further devotional or decorative artwork is publicly documented in available sources.
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Related parishes
- St. John the Baptist (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Atlantic Beach)
- Mission of San Juan de la Cruz (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
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- St. Mary (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- St. Stephen (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Our Lady of Consolation (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- St. John the Evangelist (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Chiefland)
- St. John the Baptist (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Crescent City)
- St. Ambrose (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- St. Michael (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Santa Maria del Mar (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Sacred Heart (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Fleming Island)
- Holy Faith (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Community of the Queen of Peace (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- St. Augustine (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- St. Patrick (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Gainesville)
- Mission of St. Philip Neri (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Mission of St. Anthony the Abbot (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- St. John the Evangelist (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Interlachen)
- Assumption (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Blessed Trinity (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Christ the King (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Crucifixion (Diocese of Saint Augustine)
- Holy Family (Diocese of Saint Augustine, Jacksonville)
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