This is a large French church on Park Ave. in Woonsocket that is celebrating its 140th Anniversary. I came here with my Mom on New Years Eve for the Holy Day of Obligation. It has a high ceiling and a balcony with wraparound seating. The stained glass windows are detailed and enormous, and there are tons of statues and other artwork all over the front of the sanctuary. The Stations of the Cross are also bigger than usual, stone reliefs with their writing in French.
The parish shares some of its schedule and ministries with St. Agatha, including a youth group. It has several weekly devotions during or after daily Mass, including Adoration, Divine Mercy and (of course) the Litany of the Precious Blood. The church might also have the biggest sacristy I've ever been in, so big that it's where the daily Mass is held with tons of room to spare.
You hit on two churches with the nicest pipe organs in Woonsocket - Precious Blood (Aeolian Skinner, three manuals, 26 ranks, where I worked from 1989-1997) and Holy Family (Casavant Freres, three manuals, 39 ranks, played a wedding there once in the 80's).
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