La Sagrada Familia
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- Thu Jul 11 2002

... ROBERTO SANTIAGO ENG 1010, CRN #80309 SEPT. 20, 2001 "La Sagrada Familia" In 1998, a new church edifice opened to the public on the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio. The name of the new church is " La Sagrada Familia", translated means "Holy Family." This new church is the result of the merging of two smaller churches within the Hispanic community, San Juan Bautista and Cristo Rey. These two church bodies became one, to better serve the Hispanic community as a whole. Unfortunately, in the process of bringing these two entities together, much of the original spirit of the two individual churches was not carried over into the new church "family". San Juan Bautista was a place that was well known by many in the Hispanic community. Outside of the Cleveland area, when one identified oneself as coming from Cleveland, the first question posed was "Are you a member of San














