Christ Episcopal Church (Tyler)

The Christ Episcopal Church is a church of the Episcopal Church in Tyler , Texas .

history

In 1866/67 the first Anglican Bishop of Texas, Reverend Alexander Gregg , began his missionary work in the city. A request was made to provide rooms for the first services. In 1872, by order of Greggs, Emir (Imre) Bela Gyeita Cardis Hamvasy (Hamvassy) was the first head of the community.

Hamvassy was an illustrious and versatile educated Hungarian refugee, according to the records of his wife, a baron who in Budapest and Venice , in his youth been educated Franz Liszt played a duet, 1837 in Paris at the legendary piano duel between Liszt and Sigismund Thalberg been present , later temporarily finance minister and in 1848 mayor of Budapest and after the revolution of 1848/49 emigrated to America via Hamburg. On arrival with other leading Hungarian exiles still received by President Taylor , he then had to make ends meet in changing professions and finally let himself be won over to the Episcopal Church. Under his leadership, the first church building was erected in 1873/74 and the parish was organized as an independent parish, which was recognized as such by the diocese in 1874. An autograph from a collection of his sermons is one of the special treasures of the community archive today.

Under his eleventh successor, George Edwin Platt, plans were made for a new building in 1913 and two plots were acquired for this purpose, but it was only under his successor, Chauncey Edgar Snowden, that these plans were pushed forward from 1916 on in S. Bois d'Arc Avenue, two blocks from the city center away to build the new, almost entirely brick-built church with a three-story square tower in the neo-Gothic style, which today is one of the historical sights of the place. Snowden held the first service there on October 6, 1918.

In 1953 and 1956, the complex was supplemented by two more community buildings, the Henry M. Bell Memorial Building and the Grelling Memorial Building, and a columbarium was built in 2001 in the community's memorial garden, which was laid out in 1953 .

literature

Mary J. Hayes / Frances Tarlton McCallum: A Record of Faith, 1867-1967. Christ Episcopal Church, Tyler, Texas. Texian Press, Waco (Texas) 1968
Robert E. Reed Jr .: Tyler . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston (SC) 2008, p. 63

Web links

Community website

Individual evidence

↑ Rev. Emir Hamvasy (1820-1901). By his wife Laura A. Hamvasy (1815-1918)
↑ Cf. Dana Andrew Gooley, The Virtuoso Liszt , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (inter alia) 2004, pp. 18ff.
^ Philipp Korn, Latest Chronicle of the Magyars , Vol. II, Schuberth & Co, Hamburg / New York 1852, p. 319
^ A resolution of a committee of Hungarian exiles, which he co-signed in New York on February 28, 1850, was published anonymously in London by Pál Somssich, Hungary's right. A Historical Memorandum , First Booklet, 2nd Edition, Watts, London 1850, pp. 62–64
↑ ^a ^b Further biographical information from James Patrick McGuire, The Hungarian Texans , The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, San Antonio (Texas) 1993, chap. VI, review by György Novák, The First History of the Hungarians in the Lone Star State (1994, last accessed March 17, 2009)
↑ Texas Historical Marker

[1] Rev. Emir Hamvasy (1820-1901). By his wife Laura A. Hamvasy (1815-1918)

[2] Cf. Dana Andrew Gooley, The Virtuoso Liszt , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (inter alia) 2004, pp. 18ff.

[3] Philipp Korn, Latest Chronicle of the Magyars , Vol. II, Schuberth & Co, Hamburg / New York 1852, p. 319

[4] A resolution of a committee of Hungarian exiles, which he co-signed in New York on February 28, 1850, was published anonymously in London by Pál Somssich, Hungary's right. A Historical Memorandum , First Booklet, 2nd Edition, Watts, London 1850, pp. 62–64

[mcguire-5] Further biographical information from James Patrick McGuire, The Hungarian Texans , The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, San Antonio (Texas) 1993, chap. VI, review by György Novák, The First History of the Hungarians in the Lone Star State (1994, last accessed March 17, 2009)

[6] Texas Historical Marker