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Shelley Lawrence, RSCJ, Board Trustee. Cindy Simpson, Board Trustee. Website. www .ocsb .ca. The Ottawa Catholic School Board ( OCSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 53 prior to 1999 [ 2]) is a publicly funded separate school board in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its headquarters are in the Nepean area of Ottawa.
The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and France ...
Baltimore Catechism. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore, or simply the Baltimore Catechism, [ 1] was the national Catholic catechism for children in the United States, based on Robert Bellarmine 's 1614 Small Catechism. The first such catechism written for Catholics in North ...
Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus ( K of C) is a global [ 1] Catholic fraternal service order founded by Blessed Michael J. McGivney on March 29, 1882. [ 2][ 3] Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. [ 4] It is led by Patrick E. Kelly, the order's 14th Supreme Knight. [ 4][ 5] The organization is named after the explorer ...
September 4. September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 118 days remain until the end of the year.
The Catholic Church has been the driving force behind some of the major events of world history including the Christianization of Western and Central Europe and Latin America, the spreading of literacy and the foundation of the universities, hospitals, the Western tradition of monasticism, the development of art and music, literature ...
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Mary, Marymas[ a][ b] or the Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus . The modern Biblical canon does not record Mary's birth. The earliest known account of Mary's birth is found in the Gospel of James (5:2), an apocryphal ...
The Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Black order of nuns, pioneered in educating Black children in the area, founding St. Frances Academy in 1828 (the first and oldest Black Catholic school in the US). Much more important were schools of New Orleans, under Spanish and French control until 1803. Well-to-do families sent their children to ...