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Maria Kaupas, who would be the future Mother Maria (foundress of the order of the Sisters of St. Casimir), was born on January 6, 1880, in Lithuania. At the age of 17 she immigrated to Pennsylvania and worked as a housekeeper and then as a teacher of religion. In 1907, she founded the Sisters of St. Casimir in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The hymn became so strongly associated with Casimir that sometimes it is known as "Hymn of St. Casimir" and he is credited as its author. [18] The lengthy hymn has an intricate meter and rhyme scheme (alternate acatalectic and catalectic trochaic dimeter with internal rhyme in the first and third verses (aa/b, cc/b)) and was most likely written ...
The following year, St. Ludmilla Parish was established adjacent to Saint Casimir, in order to serve an influx of Czech Catholics moving into the area. In 1927, St. Casimir Parish established St. Casimir High School, located at Cermak Road and Whipple Street. The school offered a variety of college preparatory classes exclusively for young ...
The Sisters of Saint Casimir are a Roman Catholic religious community of women founded in 1907 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Mother Maria Kaupas. It is dedicated to Saint Casimir , patron saint of Lithuania.
St. Bartholomew School [88] It opened in 1928, with a new school dedicated in 1950. [89] St. Casimir Elementary School [84] St. Cecilia School [75] St. Christopher School [84] St. Cunegunda School - opened 1930, closed unknown year; St. Luke and St. Brigid Elementary School [84] SS Peter & Paul Elementary School (Westside) Outside Detroit
St. Casimir's was established as a parish in 1902, becoming an independent parish in 1904. It was established to serve the needs of the growing Polish American community in Baltimore. The church building was built and dedicated in 1927.
The Church of Saint Casimir is a Roman Catholic church building built in 1904 in the Beaux-Arts style in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The church was founded to serve the needs of Polish American immigrants, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
In the early 1960s, the Christian Brothers of Ireland were asked by Cardinal Albert Gregory Meyer to operate an all-male high school on the far southwest side of Chicago, on land surrounded by St. Casimir Lithuanian Cemetery at the corner of 115th Street and Pulaski Road.