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St. Timothy’s Roman Catholic Church has a long and sacred history in Philadelphia.
Located at Levick and Hawthorne streets, the parish has been the home of many worshippers in the Mayfair neighborhood since 1928. Since then, the church has seen changes that require big improvements and these improvements come with a big price tag.
“To fix the elevators, that was $40,000,” said Sister Mary Elizabeth Farrell, who has been a parishioner for the past 57 years. “Now, we need windows in the convent.”
Lat week, the parishioners of St. Timothy’s held a flea market primarily to raise money for new windows in the convent. Members of the church, along with friends and family in the neighborhood, gathered in the adjacent Blessed Trinity Catholic School’s gymnasium for an afternoon of selling, buying and fundraising.
Many vendors sold gently-used clothes, toys and books after renting a table from the church for $20. Eileen Leonardo, a member of the church, sold pieces of homemade jewelry from her her company, “Jewelry By Eileen.”
A full-time employee at a law firm, Leonardo described jewelry making as her form of therapy.
“Keeps me busy, out of trouble,” she joked.
Hosting flea markets as benefits has been a popular option for St. Timothy’s. They’ve held them three weekends in a row, with the largest in the parking lot at Aria Health on Red Lion at Knights roads.
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