Sunday: 8:30 am
Rosary: 7:55 am Sunday & 6:30 pm on Wednesday
St. Mary Catholic Church is a small country church located south of Belding in the area known as Miriam. The property for the church was given to Bishop LeFevere of the Diocese of Detroit in 1860.
The present church was built by parishioners in 1871 under the direction of Father Charles Bolte who was pastor at SS Peter and Paul in Ionia. The flagship piece of the new church was the 103 foot steeple. The first resident priest was Father Andrew Leightner and in 1913 the church became a mission parish of St. Joseph in Belding.
St. Mary and St. Joseph began sharing a priest with the arrival of Father Charles Steves in 1946 who remained the priest of both parishes for 25 years.
In 1938, the Diocese was divided and St Mary became a church of the Diocese of Lansing for five months and then it became a church of the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Since then the church has flourished and is known for its welcoming and friendly congregation.
In 2012, the parish merged with St. Joseph in Belding and the new parish of St. Joseph-St. Mary clustered with St. Charles Borromeo in Greenville.