Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John Copcutt Mansion, also known as Saint Casimir's Rectory, is a historic home located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1854 and is cruciform in plan, two and one half stories high in an elaborate Italianate style. It is five bays wide, divided into three sections by a central, projecting three story tower.
The leaving Orthodox monks has stolen many treasures from the monastery, including the St. Mass Cup, decorated with over 1000 gemstones (over 400 diamonds, 300 rubies and 200 emeralds). [11] After 1920 the ruined monastery returned to Roman Catholics and was restored by sisters of the Lithuanian convent of St. Casimir.
In 1902 the monks decided to relocate the monastery and seminary to a former rice plantation at St. Benedict, Louisiana near Covington north of New Orleans. [3] The monks changed the name of the monastery and seminary from Gessen to St. Joseph. The present location of St. Joseph Abbey occupies a total of 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) of piney wooded land.
Activate or download premium subscriptions Once you enroll in an AOL premium subscription product or service, you can start the activation process by clicking on one of the following options in your order confirmation email: "Login with AOL," "download now," or "get started now."
Długosz and Saint Casimir by Florian Cynk (circa 1869) Prince Casimir's uncle Ladislaus the Posthumous, King of Hungary and Bohemia, died in 1457 at the age of 17, without leaving an heir. Casimir's father, King Casimir IV, subsequently advanced his claims to Hungary and Bohemia, but could not enforce them due to the Thirteen Years' War (1454 ...
It is by some accounts the oldest structure in New Orleans, built between 1748 and 1752. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The convent and its associated school, Ursuline Academy , moved downriver to a site on Dauphine Street in the 9th Ward in 1824, turning over the original convent to the bishop of New Orleans ...
St. Joseph College, St. Joseph, New Brunswick Canada (1864) University of Portland, Portland, Oregon (1901) University of Holy Cross, New Orleans, Louisiana (1916) (Marianites of Holy Cross) King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1946) Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts (1948) Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh (1949)
Blessed Mary Angela, foundress of the Felician sisters Chapel (1936) of the Felician sisters in Livonia, Michigan. The Felician Sisters, in full Congregation of Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Assisi (abbreviated CSSF), is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of and live in common.