Historical Marker

First Chapel in Roma

Historical marker location:
708 Estrella, Roma, Texas
( (Estrella and Lincoln Street, Roma), 708 Estrella, Roma.)
Marker installed: 1973

Built by volunteer labor, on donated site, of contributed materials, about 1840. In the years before Oblate Fathers arrived (1853) and built church, some 500 confirmed persons had received sacraments in this chapel from secular priests who lived in Mier.