Father Henry David “H.D.” Brickley was a young priest when he came from Dallas in the 1890s to pastor the first Catholic congregation in Ennis, St. Joseph Church, one of the smallest in the Dallas diocese, and later known as the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.
Accounts reveal Brickley was one of the best known and highly regarded clerics in Texas, full of wit and vigor. Yet the warm personality that…
