County of church: St. Louis Independent City
Location of church: 2653 Ohio Ave., St. Louis
Built: August 1895
Public tours are available Mon.-Fri. Contact the Oratory office for availability
Phone: (314) 771-3100
Mass Schedule:
Confessions daily before all Masses.
Sunday: 8:00 AM Low Mass; 10:00 AM Solemn High Mass
Mon.-Sat.: 8:00 AM Low Mass
Tuesday: 6:30 PM Low Mass followed by Perpetual Help devotions
Wednesday: 12:00 Noon Mass
Thursday: 6:30 PM Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
First Fridays: 6:30 PM, Solemn High Mass & Benediction
Holy Days: 8:00 AM & 12:10 PM Low Mass; 6:30 PM Solemn High Mass
"-The church’s stained glass windows were created by Emil Frei, Sr., considered to be St. Louis’ premier stained glass artist. Frei and his wife had emigrated to San Francisco from Germany but were so homesick for the Old Country, they decided to return there. On their way across the country, they stopped in St. Louis to visit some German friends. They were so taken by the German community of South St. Louis, they stayed. Emil Frei, who had studied at the Munich School of Arts and Crafts, went on to design the stained glass windows of several St. Louis churches.
-The church’s interior was designed as a German hall church with ceilings over the side aisles almost as high as those over the main aisle increasing the open feeling and spaciousness.
-The High Altar and the reredos, the ornate screen behind the altar, are in a large apse. Smaller apses on the sides of the main apse feature altars to the Blessed Mother and to St. Joseph.
-The transept projects from the side of the nave, feature altars to Our Mother of Perpetual Help to the North, and the Infant of Prague to the South.