Chapel Cross Raised

A Dream Fulfilled:
St. John’s Raises Cross at New Chapel

Queens, NY, April 13 – St. John’s University realized a 130-year-old dream today when the cross was raised atop the new St. Thomas More Church – the University’s first free-standing chapel.

After a special Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel, faculty, students, administrators and staff marched across the Great Lawn to gather in front of the new church. Despite intermittent rain, the campus community watched as the cross was lifted into place.

Scheduled for completion in Fall 2004, the church was made possible by a generous gift from John Brennan ‘63C, 66L, ’93HON, and his wife, Anita. It will be the first free-standing church on St. John’s campus since the University’s founding in 1870.