This story is from 2015. For this year’s information concerning praying the steps in 2016, click HERE or visit the Mass Times calendar.  On Friday, April 3, thousands of Cincinnati area residents will visit Holy Cross-Immaculata parish in Mt. Adams for the annual Good Friday Praying of the Steps. For …

By John Stegeman The Catholic Telegraph  Sometime in the 1870s, the traditional of “Praying the Steps” at Holy Cross-Immaculata Church began. It’s history is well known. In 1859 Archbishop John J. Purcell had the steps constructed to ease pilgrims ways as they came to pray for the completion of the …

Thursday, September 16, 2010 CATHEDRAL DEANERY — As Holy Cross-Immaculata Church in Mt. Adams nears the end of its sesquicentennial jubilee as a parish, the parish celebrated a special Mass Sept. 12 to honor the 99 years that the Sisters of Charity devoted to the Catholic community of Mt. Adams.