Holy Redeemer

No history of Holy Redeemer would be complete without a brief history of St. John's, a history rich and impressive dating back over two centuries when Rev. John Carroll, S.J., said his first Mass in his mother's home in Rock Creek, or Forest Glen as the area is currently known. All the larger homes belonging to Catholics had rooms set aside for the... offering of Mass because penal laws made it illegal to erect Catholic churches. Fr. Carroll's zealous ministry created the need for a place of worship and in 1774 the Carroll Chapel, or St. John's Chapel as it is now called, was built close to the family home. After Fr. Carroll left St. John's, Jesuit missionaries attended until it was made a missionary church of the newly founded St. Mary's parish in Rockville in 1813. In 1850 a new chapel was built and the building officially became "St. John's Church".Read More