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FIRST ROMAN CATHOLIC SETTLEMENT IN VIRGINIA
The crucifix by sculptor Georg J. Lober, erected in 1903, commemorates the first English Roman Catholic settlement in Virginia. Fleeing political and religious termoil in Maryland, Giles Brent and his sisters Margaret and Mary established two plantations called Peace and Retirement on the north side of Aquia Creek between 1647 and 1650. Later, they jointly acquired 15,000 acres in Northern Virginia, including the site of present-day Alexandria. Their nephew George Brent, whose plantation Woodstock and family cemetery were located nereby, represented Stafford County in the House of Burgesses in 1688, the only Roman Catholic delegate in the colonial period.
Department of Historical Resources, 1998 |