

Kennedy have encouraged their parishioners to talk about the disaster. Mary's High School, now Greenwich Catholic. Many residents of Greenwich have wealth, but have managed to avoid celebrity, except perhaps the church itself, whose image was splashed across the national media when it opened its doors to the public after the death of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, a graduate of St. Outside of Greenwich and the business of finance, their names may not be known. With such a large congregation, 1,500 families, such a connection may seem implausible.īut every connection flows into another: a neighbor, a fellow commuter, the son of a parishioner and the father of a classmate at Greenwich Catholic School, the elementary school of St. Just about everyone in the parish knew or knew of a parishioner who has been affected. Michael's, however small it may be in the face of this tragedy, is its loss - 11 parishioners in all, out of the 17 dead or missing who lived in Greenwich. But that evening, as some arrived weeping, some in stunned silence, the priests began an impromptu mass. Michael the Archangel on North Street in Greenwich. THE day of the terrorist attacks, people began wandering into the Church of St.
