,CREEN MEADOWS,

(St. Lawrence O’Toole)

\‘iik THIS YEARS this parish was known as Morell, later as Morell Rear and since the 1980s as Green Meadows.

In the 1830s and 18405 Irish and Scottish immigrants settled the region which then Formed part of St. Andrew’s Parish. In 1866 the people erected their First and only church, the present one‘ dedicating it to St. Lawrence O'Toole who was the First archbishop of Dublin in the twelfth century.

In 1894 the parishioners built a rectory and the same year welcomed their Firsr resident pastor. This house burned in 1913 and a new one replaced it the same year.

By the 1920s a growing population had settled in what is today Morell Village. In 1929 this village area was canonically erected as a parish and dedicated to St. Theresa of the Little Flower. Since then both parishes have shared the same pastors who since the late 1950s have

lived in the village rectory.

In 1960 the Sisters of Saint Martha came to the parish to teach in nearby schools

and took up residence in the unoccupied

St. Lawrence rectory. They brought new

life to the parish during their

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eight years there and shortly after their

departure the rectory was sold.

Near the church stands the Former " horse bush‘” now renamed "the prayer garden.” a splendid growth oFold hardwood trees. now neatly groomed and containing

within it a grotto ofthe Blessed Virgin Mary.

Today approximately ninety families live in St. Lawrence Parish which contains an abundance ofgood and level Farm lands. The name "Green Meadows" is related to "Beaupré" (beautiful meadow) From St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec. to which a number of parishioners travelled on pilgrimage.

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