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Grantham Academy, built in 1829, was a direct precursor to St. Catharines Collegiate. The institution was funded by William Hamilton Merritt.It was renamed the St. Catharines District Grammar School in the 1840s and became the St. Catharines Collegiate Institute and Vocational School in 1871, which was when the Ontario School Act was established.
Residents of St. Catharines are known as St. Catharinites. St. Catharines carries the official nickname "The Garden City" due to its 1,000 acres (4 km 2) of parks, gardens, and trails. St. Catharines is between the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) and the Canada–U.S. border at Fort Erie. Manufacturing was the city's dominant industry ...
St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota was founded in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and named for St. Catherine of Alexandria. [53] University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, California is the first Eastern Orthodox Christian university in the United States and the English-speaking world.
The church of St. Catherine stands on the highest site of the promontory of Punta Stendardo, in a dominant position over the surrounding built-up area. [42] The building runs parallel to Pius IX Street and its front elevation leads onto a narrow little square, created in 1840 through the enlargement of the pre-existing alley, which on the opposite side of the aforementioned street descends by ...
St. Catherine, a 2015 album by the band Ducktails; MV St Catherine, a 1983 ferry, crossing Portsmouth to Fishbourne, Isle of Wight, England; St. Catharine (Waldorf, Maryland) or Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House, a historic house in Maryland
Caterina Moriggi (1437–1478), also known as Catherine of Pallanza, Italian ascetic and founder of a religious order; Catherine of Racconigi (1487–1574), TOSD Italian mystic and stigmatic; Catherine of St. Augustine (1632–1668), OSA French canoness who served the sick in Quebec; Catherine Jarrige (1754–1836), French worker with the poor
The main village of the Natchez people was located on St. Catherine's Creek. [3] The first plantation in the Natchez district was established in 1718, during the French colonial era, along St. Catherine's Creek. [4] The second capital of Mississippi Territory, Washington, could be reached by St. Catherine's Creek, in seasons of high water. [5]
Saint Catherine's Monastery (Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين Dayr al-Qiddīsa Katrīn; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.