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St. Nicholas Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace, streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, an area originally settled by Dutch farmers, were named for St. Nicholas of Myra. The name later was taken for nearby St. Nicholas Park, located at the intersection of St. Nicholas Avenue and 127th Street. [113]
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the whole Western United States and Midwest (except Ohio), Alaska, and Hawaii. As of 2020, the St. Nicholas Eparchy has 43 churches and missions in the western USA.
Its purpose was to serve the spiritual, social, educational, and recreational needs of Catholic military personnel and civilian defense workers and their families. It was a member agency of the United Service Organization (USO) and the Veterans Administration 's (VA) Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee and operated a VA Hospital ...
This led to the creation of the long-lasting custom of children hanging up stockings or leaving a plate out on St. Nicholas Eve. St. Nicholas was named a saint by the church on Dec. 6, which is ...
St. Nicholas Catholic Church was an historic church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, located in Frenchtown, Ohio. The parish was founded in 1856, with the authorization of Bishop Amadeus Rappe of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland , to serve French-speaking Catholics who had immigrated to Northwest Ohio from Belgium and Luxembourg .
The St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church was built in 1909 to serve the growing immigrant community. Preceding World War I, Wilmington experienced an exponential influx of new residents from Ukraine. The neighborhood that subsenquently became known as “Little Ukraine” was home to Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and also ...
In 1897, a frame meetinghouse became the First Ukrainian Catholic Church in South Troy. However, an increasing Ukrainian population in the area soon required a larger facility for the parish. [3] A certificate of incorporation was filed in January 1900 for St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Church [b] and plans were begun on a new building. [5]
St. Nicholas Croatian Church is a Roman Catholic church in Millvale, Pennsylvania, US within the Diocese of Pittsburgh. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . It is noted for its murals by Maxo Vanka , [ 3 ] painted in 1937 and 1941, such as Immigrant Mother Raises Her Sons for American Industry [ 4 ] and The Capitalist .