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Flavia Julia Helena [a] (/ ˈ h ɛ l ə n ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē; c. AD 246/248 – 330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, [b] was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.
There are three churches on the islands pertaining to the Catholic mission: the Sacred Heart Church in Jamestown on Saint Helena island; the St. Joseph Church in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha island; the Church of Our Lady of the Ascension in Cat Hill, on Ascension Island, near the RAF Airfield.
Oblates of St. Joseph; Oblates of the Virgin Mary; Olivetans; Oratory of Divine Love; Order of Hospitaller Canons Regular of St Stephen; Order of Monte Vergine; Order of Saint Elisabeth; Order of Saint Michael of the Wing; Order of Sion; Order of St Mary Magdalene; Order of the Apostles of the Last Days; Order of the Holy Ghost
The first Catholic priests came to Saint Helena with Napoleon Bonaparte in 1819. Father Antonio Bounavita and Father Ange Vignali arrived on St. Helena. Bounavita left the island in March 1821, leaving Vignali to administer Extreme Unction to Napoleon on 5 May 1821 and conduct his burial service on 9 May.
The Diocese of Helena (Latin: Dioecesis Helenensis) is the Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in western Montana in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon .
The Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles de Paris is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.It has housed the relics of the Empress Saint Helena, mother of Constantine, since 1819, for which it remains a site of veneration in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. [1]
The Cross or the Image of Saint Helena with the Cross is used for Santa Cruzan, while the Image of Blessed Mother is used for Flores de Mayo that is the distinction of the two festivals but some organizers mixed the two festivals together in one celebration, Flores and Santa Cruzan.
Ten years later, in 1859, the Diocese of St. Helena was established by Queen's Order in Council, and included the islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Furthermore, until 1869 the diocese also included the British residents of Rio de Janeiro and other towns on the eastern seaboard of South America as well as the Falklands .