Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal R. C. Church

:This article is about a church in Queens, New York, not New Jersey.
The Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in New York built in 1917. It is located at 62-81 60th Place
Ridgewood, New York 11385. The name of the church was based on a chapel in Paris, France believed to be the place of worship where the Virgin Mary appeared to Catherine Labouré in 1830 to request the creation of a miraculous medal. It is one of the recorded 92 Christian sanctuaries in New York dedicated to the Virgin Mary: one among 76 Roman Catholic churches in New York and one among 19 geographically located in Queens, New York.
History
The current church building was built beginning 1941. The present-day school building of its parish was the former site of its old church building. The parish celebrated its 75th anniversary on October 23, 2005.
A significant part of its interior is a chapel dedicated to the image of the Divine Mercy, Saint Sister Faustina and Saint Pope John Paul II. It was blessed by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, the seventh Bishop of Brooklyn, New York, on April 12, 2015 during Divine Mercy Sunday.
Notable people
Among notable persons educated in the school of the parish (formerly a parish school, now an academy in the name of Notre Dame Catholic Academy of Ridgewood) was Rev. Edward B. Scharfenberger, who was selected by Pope Francis to become the tenth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany in New York as of April 10, 2014. He was a priest and an experienced lawyer. Priests who served the community through the Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal R.C. Church include Father Louis Aufiero (from 1969 to 1970), Father Italo Barozzi and Father Slawomir Sobiech.

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