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Trenton’s Church of the Sacred Heart prepares to celebrate 200 years of holding service in the city

By Nicole Mulvaney/The Times of Trenton
on November 17, 2013 at 7:30 AM, updated November 17, 2013 at 7:34 AM

TRENTON — When the Church of the Sacred Heart got its start, there was no single building that housed its parishioners. They gathered in each other’s homes, or in each other’s businesses, to share their Catholic faith with Bibles pressed open to pray and celebrate the liturgy.

Now, as the church prepares to celebrate 200 years of holding services in the city, its parishioners are its heart just as much as they were back in the 1700s, according to its pastor, the Rev. Dennis Apoldite.

Apoldite, who is in his second stint as pastor of Sacred Heart, said the church traces its beginnings to the late 1700s when religious gatherings were held in homes and businesses. The groups of Catholics, predominately of Irish, German and French descent, began to grow, and the expanding congregation led John Baptist Sartori, a Catholic Trenton resident who owned a macaroni shop near the present-day Rho nightclub, to purchase land on the corner of Market and Lamberton streets in the city to build a formal meeting place.