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Some members joined other religious orders, including the Sisters of Charity of New York. Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville - The Sisters, whose motherhouse is located in Amityville, New York, ran the St. Joseph Sanitarium in Forestburgh in Sullivan County, which was the summer retreat of Cardinal Patrick Hayes. The facility closed in 1970.
St. Anthony was constructed in 1874, merged with St. Alphonsus in 1975. [23] St. Athanasius Church 6115 Bay Pkwy, Bensonhurst: St. Augustine-St. Francis Xavier Parish Saint Augustine Church, 122 Sixth Ave, Park Slope: Built in 1897 [24] St. Francis Xavier Church, 225 6th Ave, Park Slope Built in 1904. [24] Filming location for John Wick. [25] [26]
Saint Ursula, c. 1650, Italy The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (German school, 16th century) According to Geoffrey of Monmouth , a 12th-century British cleric and writer, Ursula was the daughter of Dionotus , ruler of Cornwall.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and Marian shrine in Brooklyn, New York, United States. [1] The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Mother of Perpetual Succour.
In New York City, in 1873, James Boyce (1826–1876) invited the Ursuline nuns to found a girls' academy in St. Teresa's parish on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The new school, called St. Teresa's Ursuline Academy, located at 137 Henry Street, was incorporated in 1881 and as of 1891 had a faculty of five sisters teaching 62 pupils. [ 25 ]
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The Academy of Mount St. Ursula is a Catholic girls' college preparatory school founded in 1855 as a part of the Monastery of St. Ursula in the town of Morrisania (now a part of the Bronx, New York City). It is the oldest continuously operating Catholic high school for girls in the State of New York, and is located in the Archdiocese of New York.
The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 856 Pacific Street between Vanderbilt and Underhill Avenues in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, was built in 1912 in the Spanish Colonial style, replacing a previous church built in 1861. [1]