Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount

Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	125 Mead Mountain Road, Woodstock, New York
Built:	1891[1]
Architectural style:	Gothic Revival[1]
NRHP Reference#:	0501385[1]
Added to NRHP:	December 9, 2005

The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891. Services in the Sarum Rite of the Western Orthodox (Catholic) tradition are held each Sunday morning. It is purported to be the repository of a Marian weeping icon. In the 1960s, Father Francis, the much-beloved "hippie priest", here welcomed hippies who had congregated in town during those years that culminated in the famous art and music festival. Fr. Francis began the practice of this lesser known branch of Catholicism, which acknowledges the Pope as an earthly spiritual leader but, unlike classical Roman Catholicism, does not consider the Pope to be supreme or infallible. The Church has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Archiplanet.org entry
2. ^ Description of Father Francis including interview
3. ^ Shouting Thomas Blog article

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External links

• Official site (?)

Coordinates: 42°03′24″N 74°07′58″W / 42.056622°N 74.132738°W / 42.056622; -74.132738