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St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is an independent Catholic church located in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Formerly a parish belonging to the Catholic Church, it was established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The parish is maintained and managed by its parishioners as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. [2]
St. Casimir Lithuanian Cemetery (Švento Kazimiero Kapinės at 4401 W. 111th Street) is a Lithuanian cemetery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago on the edge of the southwest side of Chicago where many deceased Lithuanians are buried. [34] Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice, Illinois [35]
As the Lithuanian immigration to the United States increased, Lithuanians in Chicago established the Catholic cemetery of Saint Casimir in 1903. However, this cemetery would accept only Catholics for burials. The cemetery was controlled by Matas Kriaučiūnas, priest of St. George parish, who was suspected of embezzling parish's funds. [2]
The Opening of the Coffin of St. Casimir measures 285 by 402 centimetres (112 in × 158 in) and decorates the east wall. It depicts the opening of St. Casimir's coffin on August 16, 1604 during his canonization proceedings. The body in the coffin was found intact, 120 years after the burial.
St. Casimir Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church, Sioux City, Iowa; St. Casimir Church, Baltimore, Maryland; Church of St. Casimir (Saint Paul, Minnesota) St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church (Newark, New Jersey) St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church, now the Paul Robeson Theater, a New York City Designated Landmark in Brooklyn, New York
Saint Louis Abbey was founded in 1955 as a priory of the Benedictine Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, which dispatched three monks to plant a new foundation in St. Louis. They came at the invitation of Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter and a group of prominent St. Louis lay Catholics, who desired a boys' school in their community run ...
Initially, the first schools operated in Vilnius near the Franciscan monastery and cathedral. [23] Vytautas settled the Benedictines in Senieji Trakai in 1409, where it was sought that they would open a school as well. [23] A parish school for the townspeople was established, near the Church of St. Johns, Vilnius, in 1413. [23]
The Sisters of Saint Casimir are a Roman Catholic religious community of women founded in 1907 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Mother Maria Kaupas. It is dedicated to Saint Casimir , patron saint of Lithuania.