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The Old Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne, also known as Mount Loretto Church, is a historic Catholic church building located in the Pleasant Plains area of Staten Island in New York City. It is located north of Hylan Boulevard between Page Avenue and Richard Avenue, in the southern part of the island, near the Atlantic Ocean and Tottenville ...
Joachim [a] was, according to Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary (mother of Jesus), and the maternal grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part of the New Testament apocrypha. [1] His feast day is 26 July, a date shared with Saint Anne.
Sts. Anne and Joachim is a Roman Catholic church located in Fargo, North Dakota. Planning for the church began in 1995 and was completed in 2010. The rites of dedication were on February 11, 2010, by Samuel J. Aquila. [2] [3] The church was named after Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, the parents of Mary, mother of Jesus. [4] Sts.
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy ; Saints Joachim and Anne School (Queens Village) Former schools. In the 1980s the diocese had about 102 schools. From the mid ...
In the Latin Church St. Anne was not venerated, except, perhaps, in the south of France, before the thirteenth century. [13] A shrine at Douai, in northern France, was one of the early centers of devotion to St. Anne in the West. [16] The Anna Selbdritt was a type of iconography depicting the three generations of Saint Anne, Mary, and the child ...
St. Adalbert's Church (Staten Island) St. Charles's Church (Staten Island) St. Clare's Church (Staten Island) Old Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne; St. Joseph's Church (Staten Island) St. Mary's Church (Staten Island) St. Patrick's Church (Staten Island) St. Peter's Church (Staten Island) St. Rita's Church (Staten Island) St. Roch's Church ...
Every third Sunday until 1939, the railway operated a special train from St. George Terminal to Mount Loretto and back, for relatives and visitors. The stop was called "Mission Station". [6] The Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne was constructed in 1891 on the grounds of Mount Loretto, to serve the children and staff of the institution. In ...
Prince's Bay Light on a bluff at Mount Loretto Unique Area. Mount Loretto was once the largest orphanage in New York State. [2] It was started by Father John Christopher Drumgoole, an Irish Catholic priest and founder of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Manhattan, an organization to help poor and disposed children.