Roadside Adventure~
On the drive from Springfield, IL to Pleasanton, TX for this gateguarding job, we stopped at the smallest Catholic Church in the WORLD!! St Martin’s Catholic Church is located in Warrenton, Texas, just about in between Austin and Houston. It measures just 192 square feet (12 by 16 feet) and can accommodate about 20 people. Holy Mass is celebrated here once a month, but it is open to the public 24/7.
The church is located on a busy two-lane county road, so finding a place where we could pull over while towing the RV was a bit tricky. We found an open parking area a few hundred yards past the church that belonged to an eclectic collection of antique businesses. Of course, we walked around these places as well.
Check out the pics and captions below.
One of the antique stores had about six of these British phone boxes.
We considered trading in our fifth-wheel for this antique, all-aluminum travel trailer. But, this rig doesn’t have air-conditioning!
We were recently learning about an old Greyhound bus called the “Scenic Cruiser”. This old motorcoach resembled the shape of the Scenic Cruiser a lot.
At first, we thought this was an RV conversion, but upon closer look, it was an original RV motorcoach.
This appears to be an old MiG-15 fighter jet (we believe).
St Martin’s church and graveyard.
Here’s your sign.
St Martin’s Catholic Church.
There is even a geocache here! We found it!
The view of the inside of the church from the entrance.
There were benches (pews) on both sides of the church.
The altar and tabernacle. There was also a “prayer request” book as well as a visitors sign-in book.
St Martin’s Catholic Church is in the Victoria Diocese.
St Peregrine, on the left, is the patron saint of cancer patients and people who have serious illnesses.
St Dymphna, on the right, is the patron saint of those suffering with anxiety and mental afflictions.
St Martin’s in the background. There is a small graveyard in the foreground.
A few of the graves in the graveyard. There were only a handful of family names in this graveyard, mostly of the founding families of the church.
If you ever visit St Martin’s, be sure to look behind this frame of “The Lord’s Prayer”.
