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The parish of St. Martin of Tours in Los Angeles was founded in 1946. [1] The land acquired for the construction of the church was formerly an orchard on the estate of actor Gary Cooper . [ 2 ] Ground was broken for the construction of the church on February 9, 1947, and the cost of the church was estimated at $150,000 with an additional ...
St. Martin of Tours 1 Riverstone Cir, New Hope: St. Andrew 81 Swamp Rd, Newtown: Founded in 1880 [173] St. John the Baptist 4050 Durham Rd, Ottsville: St. Isidore 2545 W. Pumping Station Rd, Quakertown: Founded in 1886 [174] St. Vincent de Paul 654 Hatboro Rd, Richboro: Founded in 1968, current church dedicated in 1971 [175] St. Lawrence
St. Martin of Tours' Church (Bronx, New York) St. Martin's Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Martin's Catholic Church, Valley City, Ohio; St. Martin of Tours Episcopal Church, Omaha, Nebraska; St. Martin's Church (Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania) Saint Martin of Tours Parish Roman Catholic Church, Oxford Circle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kathy Kane, the archdiocese's interim superintendent of Catholic schools, said the decision to close St. Martin was made "with great sadness." "St. Martin has provided spiritual development and ...
The tomb of Saint Martin was rediscovered on 14 December 1860, which aided in the 19th-century revival of the popular devotion to St. Martin. After the radical Paris Commune of 1871, there was a resurgence of conservative Catholic piety, and the church decided to build a basilica to Saint Martin.
Many churches are named after Saint Martin of Tours. St Martin-in-the-Fields, at Trafalgar Square in the centre of London, has a history appropriately associated with Martin's renunciation of war; Dick Sheppard, founder of the Peace Pledge Union, was Vicar 1914–26, and there is a memorial chapel for him, with a plaque for Vera Brittain, also ...
The Community of Saint Martin is a public association of clerics according to pontifical law, gathering Roman Catholic priests and deacons. It was founded in 1976 by Father Jean-François Guérin , a priest from the Archdiocese of Tours (France), under the protection of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri , Archbishop of Genoa (Italy).
Basilica of St. Martin may refer to: Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours, a Roman Catholic basilica in Tours, France; Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay, a Romanesque church in Lyon, France; Taal Basilica, the Minor Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours, in Batangas, Philippines