Father Juncker, who served the early years of Holy Cross, later became the first bishop of Alton, Illinois (presently the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois). Saint Remigius, who died in 533, was an archbishop in Rheims, France, which is not far from where the church’s first pastor, Father Damien Juncker, was raised. Holy Cross Church is the successor, on the same property, of Columbus' first Catholic Church, Saint Remigius, which was dedicated on April 29, 1838. Through post-Civil War development of the capital city as a transportation and industrial center, into and beyond all the 20th Century events of wars, the Great Depression, inner-city blight, urban renewal and downtown revitalization, Holy Cross and its parishioners have indeed "held high the Cross." From a handful of German Catholic families when construction began on the city's first Catholic Church in 1837, through a burgeoning influx of immigrants from Germany and Ireland after 1848, Holy Cross became the center of Catholic Columbus. The "Mother Church of Columbus" has a long and rich history, from its origins in 1833 as a mission served by the Dominicans of Somerset, Ohio, to its present position as a thriving center of spiritual strength in its downtown neighborhood, now known as the Discovery District.
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