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Milledgeville

• Sacred Heart at 150: Celebrating roots and growth 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published July 11, 2024

  Red brick with a towering steeple, Sacred Heart Church sits on the edge of the Milledgeville business district, within view of the antebellum state capitol building. This year marks the church’s 150th anniversary, and it is one of the oldest in the archdiocese.

• O’Connor’s Andalusia hosts open-mic evenings

  

  Published July 6, 2017

  MILLEDGEVILLE—Andalusia Farm, the fabled home of author Flannery O’Connor, will extend its regular hours for a monthly open-mic series on Thursdays, July 20, Aug. 17 and Sept. 21. Thursdalusia, a drop-in, open-mic evening moderated by Daniel Wilkinson, an actor and teacher, runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. This is its second season. The farm is […] Full Story

• Knights celebrate 30 years of service with special art at Sacred Heart

  

  Published May 19, 2017

  MILLEDGEVILLE—Knights of Columbus Council 9458 recently celebrated 30 years of serving Sacred Heart Church and the Milledgeville and Baldwin County communities. To commemorate the anniversary, Fayette County sculptor John Parker was commissioned to create art to be placed in the landscape of the Sacred Heart Church. The monument now sits in front of the church […] Full Story

• St. Joseph parishioner is a top nursing student at Georgia College

  Published May 19, 2017

  MILLEDGEVILLE—Maria N. Boff graduated from the school of nursing at Georgia College, Milledgeville, as one of the valedictorians of the May 2017 graduating class. She was selected to give the Phi Kappa Phi valedictorian address during the graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 6. Boff plans to work at Northside Hospital, Atlanta, in the Blood and […] Full Story

• Milledgeville church offers engrossing literary story

  

  By STEPHEN O'KANE, Staff Writer
  Published October 29, 2009

   Unassumingly positioned at the corner of North Jefferson and Hancock streets in downtown Milledgeville is a simple, quaint building that has served as a place of worship and ministry for Catholics for more than 135 years. Matching the look and feel of the rest of Milledgeville’s historic district, the brick building, along with the Milledgeville […] Full Story

• New Endowment Will Preserve Flannery’s Church

  

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published May 28, 2009

  At the corner of North Jefferson and East Hancock, the historic brick church stands. Stepping inside, time seems to have been its friend. Even empty of people, it is filled with warmth, as if imbued with the prayers and the devotion of ordinary Catholics who marked each season of their lives at Sacred Heart Church, […] Full Story