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[17] [20] The earliest complete account of Nicholas's life that has survived to the present is a Life of Saint Nicholas, written in the early ninth century by Michael the Archimandrite (814–842), nearly 500 years after Nicholas's probable death. [21]
St. Michael Academy, closed in 2021. [1]Sacred Heart School - Opened in 1914 and closed in 2021.It was privately operated. [2]Former schools of predecessor dioceses. St. Anthony's Industrial School - An American Indian school [3] (of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles)
In 1936, the academy moved to Carlsbad, California and opened as the Davis Military Academy, but a year later was again renamed the San Diego Army and Navy Academy. In 1944, "San Diego" was dropped from the name. Army and Navy Academy was notably led by William Currier Atkinson, who served as the academy's president for fifty years. [3]
St. Nicholas was named a saint by the church on Dec. 6, which is the same day he is believed to have died in 343 A.D. ... a German immigrant who was a medical doctor, set up the first Christmas ...
Francis James Furey (February 22, 1905 – April 23, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1863, as bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in California from 1966 to 1969 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas from 1969 to 1979.
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For thousands of years, San Nicolas was the home of the Nicoleño people, who were probably related to the Tongva of the mainland and Santa Catalina Island. [citation needed] It was named for Saint Nicholas by Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno after he sighted the island on the saint's feast day (December 6) in 1602.
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