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Vibiana is a third-century virgin martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.She is the patroness of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Her liturgical feast day is 1 September. The remains of Vibiana were rediscovered on December 9, 1853, in ancient catacombs near the Appian Way.
Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, [3] [4] while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily [5] [6] is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian ...
The Cathedral of Saint Vibiana (Spanish: Catedral de Santa Vibiana), often called St. Vibiana's, is a former Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Located in Downtown Los Angeles, the building opened in 1876 as the cathedral for what was then known as the Diocese of Monterey–Los Angeles, and remained the official cathedral of ...
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles), informally known as the COLA or the Los Angeles Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de Los Ángeles), is the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, United States.
The parish was founded in 1906. [2] It has served many different parishioners: oilmen and railway workers, film industry figures, post-World War II families, gay men, etc. [2] From 1992 to 1994, Archbishop George Hugh Niederauer lived in the church. [3]
José H. Gómez is the current archbishop of Los Angeles, having automatically succeeded his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who served for 25 years, upon the latter's retirement which took effect on March 1, 2011. [18] Previously, Gómez served as Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on April 6, 2010.
St. Monica Catholic Church is a Catholic parish in Santa Monica, California.It is one of the largest churches in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.. Located at 7th and California Streets, it was erected in 1925 and served as the inspiration for the 1944 film classic Going My Way with Bing Crosby.
The James Oviatt Building, commonly referred to as The Oviatt Building, is an Art Deco highrise in Downtown Los Angeles located on Olive Street, half a block south of 6th St. and Pershing Square. In 1983, the Oviatt Building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is also designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.