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In August 2008, the Daughters of Mary Mother of Our Savior and St Joseph's Chapel said that art dealer Mark Zaplin, and Mark LaSalle, a New York State art appraiser, colluded to defraud them of $1.7 million they believe could have been obtained from selling Notre Dame des Anges, an 1889 artwork by William-Adolphe Bouguereau that depicts Mary standing in the clouds with the Christ Child ...
Mary Virginia Merrick (November 2, 1866 – January 10, 1955), born in Washington, DC, was a pioneer in American Catholic social reform. At age 20, despite being paralyzed from a fall, she started the Christ Child Society in 1887 to provide for needy infants, children, and their families in the Washington, D.C. area.
This is a list of closed and open churches within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.In 2006, the Diocese started the "Called to BE Church" initiative. As of November 2015, this initiative had reduced the number of parishes to 126 [1] through church mergers and closings in response to declining church enrollment, priest shortages, and changing demographics.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Saratoga counties), as well as Warren, Washington, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, Fulton, Montgomery, southern Herkimer, and extreme southeastern Hamilton counties in New York state. In these fourteen counties, there are over ...
The Christ Child—also known as Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, Child Jesus, Divine Child, Divine Infant and the Holy Child—refers to Jesus Christ during his early years. The term encompasses a period of Jesus' life , described in the canonical Gospels , encompassing his nativity in Bethlehem , the visit of the Magi , and his presentation at the ...
College of New Rochelle (New Rochelle, New York) - founded in 1904 as New York state's first Catholic college for women; merged into Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, New York) College of Saint Mary-of-the-Wasatch (Salt Lake City, Utah) College of Saint Teresa (Winona, Minnesota) College of Saint Thomas More (Fort Worth, Texas) Official site
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A priest in 1884 erected the shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, dedicated to the three French priests who were killed in New York during the 1640s. [15] In 1886, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Syracuse, taking central New York from the Diocese of Albany. [16] McNeiry died in 1894.