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  2. Daylesford Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Daylesford Abbey, near Philadelphia. The Abbey is situated on 88 acres (0.36 km 2) in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, a few miles from the Philadelphia Main Line's Paoli Platform, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Norbertines combine a monastic-style life in community with the active ministry of ordained priests.

  3. List of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, Germantown: 1744 House Wister Tenant House: Philadelphia, 5269 Germantown Avenue: c. 1745 House Belmont Mansion: Philadelphia, Fairmount Park: 1745 House The Monastery: Philadelphia, Wissahickon Park: 1747 House Glen Fern: Philadelphia, 1100 Livezey Lane: 1747 House Glen Fern, also known as the Livezey House, is a fine example of ...

  4. The Monastery (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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    The Monastery is a historic stone house in Philadelphia, located on Wissahickon Creek at Kitchens Lane. It was built in 1747 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

  5. Old Philadelphians - Wikipedia

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    Old Philadelphians, also called Proper Philadelphians [1] or Perennial Philadelphians, [2] are the First Families of Philadelphia, that class of Pennsylvanians who claim hereditary and cultural descent mainly from England, also from Ulster, Wales and even Germany, and who founded the city of Philadelphia.

  6. List of church buildings in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Old Saint Joseph's Church: 321 Willings Alley Our Mother of Consolation Church: 9 East Chestnut Hill Avenue Resurrection of Our Lord Church: 2000 Shelmire Avenue St. Adalbert in Philadelphia: 2645 E. Allegheny Avenue known as the "Polish Cathedral" of Philadelphia Saint Augustine Church: 243 North Lawrence Street Saint Charles Borromeo Roman ...

  7. Old City, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Old City is a neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, near the Delaware River waterfront. It is home to Independence National Historical Park , a dense section of historic landmarks including Independence Hall , the Liberty Bell , the First Bank of the United States , the Second Bank of the United States , and ...

  8. St. Charles Borromeo Seminary - Wikipedia

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    Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary is a Roman Catholic seminary at 1400 Evans Road in Ambler, Pennsylvania, that is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in the Philadelphia region, the school is named after Charles Borromeo, an Italian saint from the Counter-Reformation. [1]

  9. Theoleptos of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Theoleptos was born in Nicaea ca. 1250. He married but left his wife in 1275 to become a monk. He spent time in the monastic community of Mount Athos, where he became impregnated with the mystical traditions of Orthodox monasticism, so that the 14th-century bishop and theologian Gregory Palamas regarded him as a forerunner of his own mystical doctrine of Hesychasm.