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Carl Fisher gives his polo stables to the first Catholic parish on the Beach
Miami Beach, Florida
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Father William Barry was sent to Miami Beach in 1926 to start a Catholic parish where there was none. Carl Fisher, who was not Catholic and who wrote covenants into his deeds barring sales to Jews, handed over five polo stables for a church and school. The first mass was said in a converted stable that June. The permanent church was dedicated in 1929.
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