Built in the style of l4th Century Renaissance
architecture, Saint Rita Shrine stands today as a monument both to the simple faith  of
a people desirous of a church of their own, and to the intricate craftsmanship of those
who fashioned a work of art. Its architect was George Lovatt, its builders were artisans
of a bygone era, and its benefactors were thousands of poor immigrant people of a city
they had come to call home. The Church was in every sense the center of their new world,
and since it served their social, educational, and spiritual needs, the church building
was to express the majesty, beauty, hope and heart they had come to this land to find. |
