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'''St. Boniface Parish Church and Parish''' was a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] church in [[Perryville, Missouri]].

==History==

Two major waves of German migration to [[Perry County, Missouri]] brought [[Saxon Lutheran Immigration 1838-1839|German Lutherans from Saxony]] (present-day eastern [[Thuringia]]) and German Catholics from [[Baden]].

In the 1860s, German Catholic migration from the [[Baden]] region of Germany had led to the establishing of a number of German Catholic parishes in Perry County.  Perryville already had a Catholic church and parish: St. Mary's of the Assumption. However, due to cultural and linguistic reasons, a second separate parish was established for the German-speaking community and their descendants. The name St. Boniface was conferred in honor of [[Saint Boniface|St. Boniface]], the patron saint of Germany. The church was built in 1868 by Reverend Henry Grall.<ref>State Historical Society of Missouri: Perry County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331203235/http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_perry.html |date=2016-03-31 }}</ref> St. Boniface parish had been under responsibility of diocesan priests until 1947.<ref>DeAndreis Rosati Memorial Archives:  Assumption and St. Vincent de Paul Churches, Perryville http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/674/850173/AssumptionChurch_PerryvilleMO.pdf
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===St. Boniface Grade School===

Although the “English” Catholics had settled in Perryville well before the German Catholics arrived, it was the Germans who set up the first Catholic grade school in Perryville.  The [[Sisters of the Precious Blood (Baden)|Precious Blood Sisters]], a German Catholic female order, were the first to open a school for these children in 1887.  Later, the [[Ursulines]], another female order, replaced the Precious Blood Sisters and opened a boarding school for the girls of St. Boniface Parish.  The boys are believed to have been educated at the Seminary school at St. Mary's of the Barrens.

In 1947, the Ursuline Sisters withdrew from St. Boniface Grade School.  That year, St. Boniface Grade School and St. Vincent Grade School were merged into a single school.  The St. Boniface School Building became the Primary School for Kindergarten through Third Grade. The St. Vincent School Building taught grades Four through Twelve.<ref>St. Vincent de Paul Website svdepaul.org http://www.svdepaul.org/elementary/History%20of%20School.html</ref>

==Closure==

In 1947, St. Boniface Church and Parish was merged with St. Mary’s (Assumption) Church and Parish to form the [[St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church (Perryville, Missouri)|St. Vincent de Paul Church and Parish]].  St. Boniface was closed in 1964 and later razed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/674/850173/AssumptionChurch_PerryvilleMO.pdf|title=DeAndreis Rosati Memorial Archives: Assumption and St. Vincent de Paul Churches, Perryville|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218224102/http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/674/850173/AssumptionChurch_PerryvilleMO.pdf|archive-date=February 18, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archstl.org/archives/closedparish/st-boniface-perryville|title=St. Boniface - Perryville|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227015547/http://archstl.org/archives/closedparish/st-boniface-perryville|archive-date=December 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:St. Boniface Church and School (Perryville, Missouri).jpg|St. Boniface School (left) and Church (right) ca. 1913
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==References==

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{{Churches of Perry County, Missouri}}
{{Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis}}

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[[Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1868]]
[[Category:Former Roman Catholic church buildings in Missouri]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic churches in Perryville, Missouri]]
[[Category:Organizations disestablished in 1947]]
[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1865]]
[[Category:19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States]]