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[CT-Freeper]

Immaculate Conception Church in Waterbury is probably the most spectacularly lovely Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut but it had nothing to do with Fr. Michael McGivney or with the founding of the Knights of Columbus.

I hate to disagree. Fr. McGivney was born and raised in Waterbury. He attended St. Paul's Church, which was later rebuilt and renamed Immaculate Conception Church. He said his first Mass as an ordained priest at Immaculate Conception in 1877. Immaculate Conception was physically moved to its current location and rebuilt a few years after his death. Immaculate Conception Church is currently petitioning the Vatican to be named a Basilica in honor of Fr. McGivney. Additionally, Fr. McGivney's original burial site was in his family's plot in Waterbury.

[BlackElk]

To express myself more clearly, Fr. McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus when he was serving as a diocesan priest at St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, shortly before he was sent to Thomaston when the Dominican order took over St. Mary’s in New Haven. Fr. McGivney’s mortal remains were buried, as you say, in the McGivney Family burial plot, and in recent years, removed from that grave and reinterred in a crypt at St. Mary’s in New Haven. If Immaculate Conception Church in Waterbury wishes to be a Basilica in Fr. McGivney’s honor, whatever the Vatican decides is fine by me but the work he is known for was carried out at St. Mary’s in New Haven. Your details as to his early life are of interest but I was effectively responding to the claim in post #3.