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Stephen Paxson (1808–1881) was an American Protestant missionary with the American Sunday School Union. He is known for starting over 1,300 Sunday schools in frontier rural America with a total attendance of about 83,000 [1] and is known as the Apostle to Children and possibly the single biggest influence in evangelizing the American frontier.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, also known as the Saint Louis Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Completed in 1914, it is the mother church of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the seat of Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski.
Mother of the Church (Latin: Mater Ecclesiae) is a title given to Mary in the Catholic Church, as officially declared by Pope Paul VI in 1964. The title first appeared in the 4th century writings of Saint Ambrose of Milan, as rediscovered by Hugo Rahner. [1] It was also used by Pope Benedict XIV in 1748 [2] and then by Pope Leo XIII in 1885. [3]
Trinity was known as the "mother church" to three other early Lutheran congregations in St. Louis; this group was called the Gesammtgemeinde, or "general congregation". [6] The others were Immanuel (1848 – 2012) in the Greater Ville neighborhood, Holy Cross Lutheran (1858) in the Gravois Park neighborhood, and Zion Lutheran (1860) in the St ...
Mary, Mother of the Church 5901 Kerth Rd., St. Louis, MO 63128-3705 (unincorporated St. Louis County) Mary, Queen of Peace 676 W. Lockwood Ave., Webster Groves, 63119-3597 Most Sacred Heart 350 E. Fourth St., Eureka, MO 63025-1949 Old St. Ferdinand Shrine: 1 Rue St. Francois, Florissant, MO 63031-6815 Oratory of Sts. Gregory and Augustine
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians .
Mother church architecturally represented in a mosaic of a fifth-century chapel floor (tomb marker/cover of a certain Valentia with the added invocation to rest in peace: Valentia in Pace). Bardo Museum, Tunis. Mother church or matrice is a term depicting the Christian Church as a mother in her functions of nourishing and protecting the ...
The forefathers of the early church looked to Paul's Letter to the Galatians 4:4-5: "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption", and related this to the woman spoken of in the Protoevangelium of Genesis 3:15: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your ...