James Coyle served as Pastor of the Cathedral of St. Paul in downtown Birmingham from 1904 until his assassination on August 11, 1921. Coyle was shot and killed by a Methodist minister for performing a marriage ceremony between the minister's daughter and a Puerto Rican immigrant.
Father James E. Coyle
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Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives
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