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The Holy Family of Nazareth Church (Finnish: Nasaretin pyhän perheen kirkko) is a Roman Catholic church in the Koskela district in Oulu. The church building, designed by architect Gabriel Geronzi, was constructed in two phases. Pope John Paul II blessed the cornerstone of the church on his visit to Finland in 1989. The first phase of the ...
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (Latin: Congregatio Sororum Sacrae Familiae de Nazareth) are a Catholic religious institute founded in Rome in 1875 by Mother Franciszka Siedliska. They use the postnominals CSFN and are an apostolic, international congregation, located on four continents and in thirteen countries.
The Feast of the Holy Family is a liturgical celebration in the Catholic Church, as well as in many Lutheran and Anglican churches, in honour of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his foster father, Saint Joseph, as a family. [4] The primary purpose of this feast is to present the Holy Family as a model for Christian ...
The church was established at the site where, according to one tradition, the Annunciation took place. Another tradition, based on the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James, holds that this event commenced while Mary was drawing water from a local spring in Nazareth, and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation was erected at that alternate site.
The Piamartini, officially known as the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth of Blessed Father Piamarta (Italian: Congregazione della Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth del Beato Padre Piamarta; abbreviated FN) is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men.
Around 1922 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth arrived from Chicago to serve Lithuanian immigrants in the Pittsburgh area. With the assistance of the "Millvale Franciscans", they transitioned to become a separate Franciscan community known as the "Lithuanian Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi".
The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions, were a group of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth executed by the Gestapo in August 1943 in occupied Poland (present-day Novogrudok, Belarus). They were beatified as martyrs by Pope John Paul II on 5 March 2000. [2]
Holy Family Catholic Church (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia Holy Family Church (Pittsburgh) , Pennsylvania Holy Family Church, School, and Rectory , Mitchell, South Dakota