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Because these Franciscan Sisters attended Mass in a church dedicated to the then recently canonized St. Bernardine of Siena, they became known as the Bernardines. From the Convent of St. Agnes a new foundation, that of St. Joseph, was established in the same city in 1646; St. Joseph Convent gave rise to the Sacred Heart Convent, which was ...
St. Anthony of Padua Church (Manhattan) St. Casimir Church, Baltimore; St. Francis Chapel (Colonie, New York) St. Francis of Assisi Church (Manhattan) Saint Francis Xavier Mission (Lewis County, Washington) St. Mary of the Angels Church and Monastery; St. Mary's Basilica (Phoenix) St. Matthew Catholic Church (Charlotte, North Carolina)
As the Stations of the Cross are prayed during the season of Lent in Catholic churches, each station is traditionally followed by a verse of the Stabat Mater, composed in the 13th century by Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. James Matthew Wilson's poetic sequence, The Stations of the Cross, is written in the same meter as da Todi's poem. [37]
The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America [2] [3] is a Franciscan complex [nb 1] at 14th and Quincy Streets in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C. Located on a hill called Mount Saint Sepulcher, [5] and anchored by the Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulcher, [3] it includes gardens, replicas of various shrines throughout Israel, a replica of the catacombs in Rome ...
Franciscan churches by country (20 C) F. Franciscan convents (2 C, 13 P) M. Franciscan monasteries (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Franciscan churches"
The Franciscan presence in the Holy Land started in 1217, when the province of Syria was established, with Brother Elias as minister. By 1229 the friars had a small house near the fifth station of the Via Dolorosa. In 1272 Sultan Baibars allowed the Franciscans to settle in the Cenacle on Mount Zion.
The square is the site of the Inner City Franciscan Church, first built in 1743, for which it gets its name. The square was formally named Kígyó tér in 1874, then renamed Apponyi tér (for Albert Apponyi) in 1921, then Felszabadulás tér (Liberation Square) in 1953, then its earlier name of Ferenciek tere in 1991.
The statues inside the Saint John Church dating from the turn of the 20th century illustrate the Stations of the Cross (1892), Our Lady of Lourdes (1890), Saint Anthony (1900), Saint Francis (1930), the Virgin Mary as well as Jesus Christ the Saviour. The church organ was built in 1751, rebuilt in 1939.