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The congregation was founded in 1858 in Louisville, Kentucky by Mother Salesia Reitmeier, and two others sisters, all Ursulines, from Straubing, Bavaria. [1] The following year they established the Ursuline Academy boarding school. By 1880, Ursuline Academy was taking day students, while boarders attended Sacred Heart Academy. (With decreased ...
The first German Catholic church in Louisville, St. Boniface, was founded in 1836; it is today the oldest continually operating parish in the city. Three years later, Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Nashville.
Due to the Kulturkampf between the German government and the Catholic Church, in which only religious communities which provided nursing were allowed to remain functioning, in 1876 the community emigrated to the United States and established itself in Avilla, Indiana. They have taught in schools throughout the Midwestern United States.
St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, Louisville, Kentucky. In the afternoon a general row occurred on Shelby street, extending from Main to Broadway. Some fourteen or fifteen men were shot, including Officer Williams, Joe Selvage and others. Two or three were killed, and a number of houses, chiefly German coffee houses, broken into and pillaged.
St. Boniface Catholic Church (also known as St. Bonifacius Kirche Complex) is a historic church at 501-531 E. Liberty Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Established in 1836, St. Boniface was the first German Catholic parish in the city. [2] It is also the oldest, continuously existent, Catholic parish in the city of Louisville.
St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the fourth parish in the city and one of the oldest in the Archdiocese of Louisville. [citation needed] Founded as a church for German immigrants on the east side of Louisville in 1853, the church building was completed and dedicated on August ...
St. George's Roman Catholic Church: St. George's Roman Catholic Church: October 29, 1982 : 1809 Standard Ave. Park Hill: 41: St. Peter's German Evangelical Church: St. Peter's German Evangelical Church: December 4, 1980
German Church and Cemetery; German Emigration Center; German Life; German Presbyterian Church and Hortonville Cemetery; German prisoners of war in the United States; German Reform Movement (New York City, 1800s) German Village; German Village Historic District; German-American Day; German-American Friendship Garden; German-American Heritage ...