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St. Francis de Sales High School or DeSales High School may refer to various Catholic high schools named for Francis de Sales: St. Francis De'Sales High School, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India; St. Francis de Sales High School (Chicago, Illinois) DeSales High School (Louisville, Kentucky) Vandebilt Catholic High School, Louisiana; formerly named St ...
St. Francis De Sales Regional Catholic School Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title.
Archbishop Riordan blessed the new St. Francis de Sales Church/School on February 27, 1887. St. Francis de Sales School opened July 18, 1887, an elementary school for boys and girls and a girls high school. The Sisters of the Holy Names staffed the schools. St. Francis de Sales Girls High School closed May 31, 1931. After ninety years, St ...
St. Francis de Sales also has a basketball team. Organized in 1997–98, home games are played on the court in the St. Francis de Sales Parish Center in Herkimer, New York. The St. Francis Patriots are members of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball program. Teams are formed by age and gender for grades 3 through 6.
The school chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, became known simply as the 'Valley Church'. The Franciscan friars remained at Saint Francis School through the remainder of the 19th century, enlarging the plant, developing the farm, and serving hundreds of needy boys. At the beginning of the 20th century, the friars launched a building program.
The school is named for St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622), a Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church. The school was started by the School Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Joliet; who staffed the St. Francis de Sales parish schools, starting in 1893. In the late 1890s the school began to offer high school courses, though the school did not ...
Francis de Sales or Saint Francis de Sales may also refer to: Francis De Sales (actor) (1912–1988), American actor; Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales (disambiguation) St Francis de Sales College, Mount Barker, South Australia; St. Francis de Sales' Church (disambiguation) St. Francis de Sales High School (disambiguation) St. Francis De Sales ...
Aviat and Brisson together founded the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales on 30 October 1868 and to oversee the education of girls. On 30 October 1868 – with Caneut (who became Jeanne-Marie) – she received the habit of the new congregation from Bishop Gaspard Mermillod , along with the religious name Françoise de Sales .