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St. Augustine's Church (Brooklyn)
St. Augustine's Church is a Catholic Church, Catholic parish in Park Slope, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City. Tabernacle In May 2022, the church’s gold Church tabernacle, tabernacle worth approximately $2 million was stolen. The stolen tabernacle was designed by Alfred Parfitt. References

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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ...
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Park Slope
Park Slope is a neighborhood in South Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park (Brooklyn), Prospect Park and Eighth Avenue (Brooklyn), Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn), Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and New York State Route 27, Prospect Expressway to the south. Generally, the neighborhood is divided into three sections from north to south: North Slope, Center Slope, and South Slope.Oser, Alan N"Rezoning, and Redefining, Park Slope" ''The New York Times'', December 28, 2003. Accessed March 26, 2025. "As broadly defined by brokers marketing real estate there, Park Slope is bordered by Flatbush Avenue to the north, the Prospect Expressway to the south, Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, and Fourth Avenue to the west. The April rezoning actually extends west as far as Third Avenue on some blocks, and only as far as 15th Street to the south." T ...
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Church Tabernacle
A tabernacle or a sacrament house is a fixed, locked box in which the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, Eucharist (consecrated communion hosts) is stored as part of the "reserved sacrament" rite (Christianity), rite. A container for the same purpose, which is set directly into a wall, is called an ''aumbry''. Within Catholic Church, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and in some traditions of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, the tabernacle is a box-like or dome-like vessel for the exclusive reservation of the consecrated Eucharist. It is normally made from precious metals, stone or wood, and is lockable and secured to the altar or adjacent wall to prevent the consecrated elements within from being removed without authorization. These denominations believe that the Eucharist contains the Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, real presence of Jesus, and thus use the term ''tabernacle'', a word referring to the Tabernacle, Old Testament tabernacle, which was the locus of God's presen ...
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Alfred Parfitt
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Roman Catholic Churches In Brooklyn
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