PATERSON Young people at St. Bonaventure Parish here received the Sacrament of Confirmation from Bishop Kevin Sweeney during his pastoral visit April 18, which also marked the Third Sunday of Easter.
St. Bonaventure’s history began when the Franciscan friars came to Paterson from Germany in 1876 and were given an abandoned Carmelite monastery built the previous year in the Stony Road section of Paterson. Bishop Corrigan advanced the mission to parish status in 1877. The church, on Ramsey Street and Danforth Avenue, was completed in 1880.