December 11, 2024

The diocesan cross for the Jubilee Year 2025 is journeying around the diocese before spending a year at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ogdensburg as part of the Holy Year celebration.

The cross began its journey at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Constable, the cross’ normal home. From Constable, the cross traveled to St. Peter’s Church in Plattsburgh for the weekend of December 7 and 8. The cross will next travel to St. Alphonsus Church in Tupper Lake, December 14 and 15, and later to Holy Family Church in Watertown the weekend of December 21 and 22.

Local Knights of Columbus are transporting the cross between locations.

The six-foot wooden cross was carved by the uncle of Father Tony Pease for St. Bridget’s Church in Trout River, a small hamlet north of Constable, when Father Fredrick Shue was pastor. 

It is on loan to the Diocese from St. Francis of Assisi Church in Constable for the Jubilee year thanks to the generosity of Father Amruta Kumar Pasala. 

Father Shue was pastor between 1950-54, making the cross at least 70 years old.