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The cornerstone of the new Church of St. Veronica was blessed on November 3, 1907, and opened in 1909. Today it is a sister parish to Saints Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester, Pennsylvania. [10] St. Veronica School is an Independence Mission School today, one of 14 Philadelphia schools that were deemed "failing" by the state.
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, [3] was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition. [4] A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, [5] but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph Braun cited her commemoration in Festi ...
The Church of St. Veronica was a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 153 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in the West Village area of the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
Founded in 1919, current church dedicated in 2004 [69] St. Eleanor 647 Locust St, Collegeville: Founded in 1911 as St. Clare Church, became St. Eleanor Parish in 1921. Current church dedicated in 1971 [70] St. Paul 2007 New Hope St, East Norriton Township: Founded in 1963, current church dedicated in 1964 [71] St. Maria Goretti 1601 Derstine Rd ...
Veronica holding her veil, Hans Memling, c. 1470 The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand").
In 1879, the village was incorporated into Wakefield's St. Francis Parish, and a Narragansett congregation was established. The first Catholic church building, a small wooden chapel in the Gothic architectural style, was built in 1884. The new church was dedicated to St. Philomena.
As of 2016, there are seven nuns and four brothers in the congregation. Banners throughout the country proclaimed "A saint rises up in Lebanon!" heralding the first church in the world outside of Italy dedicated to Saint Veronica Giuliani. The newly built church, in Ksaibe, Lebanon, was consecrated on 9 July 2016, the saint's feast day. [7]
Founded in 1989, church dedicated in 1997. Now merged with St. Mary Church. [100] [101] St. Mary Church, 4231 Catholic Church Rd, Petersville: Now merged with Holy Family Church. [101] St. Anthony Shrine 16150 St Anthony Rd #5, Emmitsburg Founded as parish in 1894, church dedicated in 1897. Now merged with Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish. [102]