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Clodoald. Clodoald (Latin: C (h)lodoaldus, Cloudus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdōwald; [4] 522 – c. 560 AD), better known as Saint Cloud (French: [klu]), was a Merovingian prince, grandson of Clovis I and son of Chlodomer, who preferred to renounce royalty and became a hermit and monk. Clodoald found a hill along the Seine, two leagues ...
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
Location. Houston, Texas, United States. Coordinates. 29°45′37″N 95°22′21″W. / 29.76028°N 95.37261°W / 29.76028; -95.37261. Spirit of the Confederacy, also known as the Confederacy Monument, is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting an angel holding a sword and palm branch by Louis Amateis, installed in Houston 's Sam Houston ...
Farm workers - Andrew the Apostle, Benedict of Nursia, Bernard of Vienne, Eligius, George, [10] Isidore the Farmer, Notburga, Phocas the Gardener, Walstan. Farriers - Eligius, John the Baptist. Field workers - Medard. Firefighters - Eustace, [20] Florian [5] Brazilian firefighters - George.
It is the second metropolitan see in Texas after the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The mother church of the archdiocese is St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston; [3] the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston. The patron saint is Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.
Ysleta Mission. The Ysleta Mission, located in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo within the municipality of El Paso, Texas, is recognized as the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas. The Ysleta community is also recognized as the oldest in Texas and claims to have the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States ...
Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas. The Diocese of Dallas (Latin: Diœcesis Dallasensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in North Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The diocese was founded on July 15, 1890.
The Sisters of Loretto opened St. Joseph's Academy, later to be called Loretto Academy, in 1879 in San Elizario. [9] The first Catholic church in the City of El Paso, St. Mary's, was opened in 1882. [8] In the 1880s, the new railroad lines in El Paso creating an influx of Catholic immigrants.