Churches of Southern Illiinois

ST. JOSEPH'S IN BENTON, ILLINOIS

From their website: 

It was a glorious and wonderful occasion in 1950 for St Joseph Parish; the parishioners and Pastor, Fr John Venogoni, recognized the need for a new and more worthy church to gather and celebrate the Eucharist and Sacraments. These sacred rites were previously celebrated in a basement church at 500 West Webster Street, and earlier in a church in West City, Illinois.

The corner stone was laid in 1950 to the glory of God and to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph, a year which the Universal Catholics Church was observing a "Holy Year of Prayer." Bishop Albert Zuroweste, of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville, dedicated the church on Sunday, June 22, 1952.