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It was originally located in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California. [2] In 1936, the academy moved to Carlsbad, California and opened as the Davis Military Academy, but a year later was again renamed the San Diego Army and Navy Academy. In 1944, "San Diego" was dropped from the name. Army and Navy Academy was notably led by ...
St. Michael Academy, closed in 2021. [1]Sacred Heart School - Opened in 1914 and closed in 2021.It was privately operated. [2]Former schools of predecessor dioceses. St. Anthony's Industrial School - An American Indian school [3] (of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles)
For thousands of years, San Nicolas was the home of the Nicoleño people, who were probably related to the Tongva of the mainland and Santa Catalina Island. [citation needed] It was named for Saint Nicholas by Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno after he sighted the island on the saint's feast day (December 6) in 1602.
St. Nicholas was named a saint by the church on Dec. 6, which is the same day he is believed to have died in 343 A.D. ... a German immigrant who was a medical doctor, set up the first Christmas ...
[17] [20] The earliest complete account of Nicholas's life that has survived to the present is a Life of Saint Nicholas, written in the early ninth century by Michael the Archimandrite (814–842), nearly 500 years after Nicholas's probable death. [21]
In the United States the feast day is celebrated on 7 November, due to the feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. [1] Didacus is the saint to whom the Franciscan mission that bears his name, and which developed into the City of San Diego, California, was dedicated. [7] He is the co-patron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego. [2]
In the early 1540s, Spanish (or Portuguese, according to some accounts) conquistador Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explored the California coast, claiming it on behalf of Spain. [4] San Nicolas is the most remote of the Southern Channel Islands (shown in light green). Semi-arid and largely barren, it is located 60 miles (97 km) from the mainland coast.
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