Our Lady of the Valley

Our Lady of the Valley
Our Lady of The Valley Roman Catholic Church
Our Lady of the Valley church in 2008

Address	22041 Gault St. Canoga Park, CA 91303
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Website	ourladyofthevalley.org
Administration
Archdiocese	Los Angeles

Our Lady of the Valley is a large Catholic church and school located in the Canoga Park section of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest parish founded in 1921 when the area was sparsely populated, and most of the 620 parishioners were involved in agriculture with livestock or walnut and orange groves. The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Patroness of the San Fernando Valley.

At the time of its formation, the parish's boundaries covered 400 square miles (1,000 km²) from the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Ventura County line to the west, White Oak Avenue to the east, and the Santa Susana Mountains to the north. In the years after World War II, the San Fernando Valley shifted from agriculture to residential communities, and the Catholic population also swelled. The 400 square miles (1,000 km²) served by Our Lady of the Valley were carved up among nine sister parishes.^[1] Though its territory has been reduced to four square miles, the parish has grown from 620 parishioners to over 4100 families.

Monsignor John J. Hurley was pastor at Our Lady of the Valley from 1943 until 1975.^[2]

The church sustained $800,000 in damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. It was renovated and reopened in November 1995.^[3]

References

^ "Our Lady of Valley Sets Three Anniversary Events". The Valley News (Van Nuys, California). March 15, 1974. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Msgr. John Hurley Dies, Was Our Lady of the Valley Pastor". Los Angeles Times. January 12, 1995. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Renovated Church Will Be Rededicated". Los Angeles Times. November 18, 1995. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

Our Lady of the Valley History
Our Lady of the Valley School

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San Fernando Valley schools

Public high schools/notable schools
Los Angeles USD	Arleta HS Birmingham HS Canoga Park HS Chatsworth HS César Chávez LA Cleveland HS East Valley HS El Camino Real HS Francis Polytechnic Granada Hills HS Grant HS Kennedy HS Monroe HS North Hollywood HS Northridge Academy Panorama HS Daniel Pearl Magnet Reed MS Reseda HS San Fernando HS Sherman Oaks CES Sylmar HS Taft HS Valley Oaks CES Van Nuys HS
Burbank USD	Burbank High John Burroughs High
Glendale USD	Clark Magnet High Glendale High Herbert Hoover Other schools are in the Crescenta Valley
Las Virgenes USD	Calabasas Other schools are in the Conejo Valley
Non-LAUSD charter schools and other publics	Charter High School of the Arts High Tech Los Angeles