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The school was founded by the Daughters of the Cross in 1893 [3] and is situated in twenty-five acres of parkland with some notable buildings. The main building on the property was once Carshalton House, a grand manor house built in the early eighteenth century by Edward Carleton.
Saint Philomena School was founded in 1953 by the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus, and today boasts a student body of approximately 480. The school was originally located in a single building on the Narragansett Bay, but has grown over the years into a campus of five buildings, including a free-standing auditorium and a new, state-of-the-art classroom building.
During the 19th Century, the Redemptorist missionary order had a major base at this location starting in 1839, catering to the significant German population in the area. St. Philomena's was initially known as 'The Factory Church' due to being housed in an industrial warehouse, but John Neumann arrived to become head pastor and, in a matter of a few years, had a church building erected [1] at ...
St. Philomena's Girls High School, Poonthura is a girls' high school located in Poonthura, Kerala, India. It is run by the Canossian Daughters of Charity [ 1 ] and was established in 1952. References
Saint Philomena School or Saint Philomena Catholic School may refer to: United Kingdom: St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, London; St. Philomena's School, Frinton-on-Sea, England; St Philomena's Primary School, St Mary Cray, Orpington; United States: St. Philomena Catholic School, Carson, California (Los Angeles area) St. Philomena ...
The two Catholic secondary schools in Derby - Saint Thomas More and Saint Ralph Sherwin - merged in 1986. The school was named after St. Benedict, and had a logo with a Latin motto, 'Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti' ('the cross of our holy father Benedict'), until the school logo was changed in 2002, to show a more angelic version of St. Benedict.
[10] 2 months later, a gas explosion damaged the church's lower school, injuring one person. [11] For the first 45 years of its existence, St. Philomena's pastor was Francis J. Markee (1855–1943), who served until his death in June 1943. [12] Rev. A. Paul Lambert succeeded him as priest in July 1943. [13]
The school house was erected in 1865, the parsonage in 1872. The congregation numbered 200 families in 1896. Services were no longer held in German after World War I began. Because of the church's location near the riverfront, St. Philomena's steeple was a well-known landmark on the Cincinnati skyline. On July 7, 1915 a tornado damaged the steeple.