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The first Catholic church building in the Danish West Indies, present day U.S. Virgin Islands, was purchased from the Danish Crown in 1802. It was destroyed in a fire two years later. The first church under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul was consecrated in 1806. The first church building on the present location was completed in 1828.
The St. Anne Chapel [1] is a Roman Catholic chapel in Frenchtown, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, [2] in the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands (Dioecesis Sancti Thomae in Insulis Virgineis). It was opened and dedicated on December 25, 1921.
In the Catholic Church, a consecrated virgin is a virgin woman who has been consecrated by the church as a bride of Christ. Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan bishop according to the approved liturgical rite, are required to maintain perpetual virginity because they are espoused to Christ, [ 1 ] and are dedicated to the service ...
The church was opened and blessed in 1962, follows the Roman or Latin rite and is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands [4] (Dioecesis Sancti Thomae in Insulis Virgineis). It has its origins in the donation of land that made William Callahan in early 1960 to build a Catholic parish.
By 1733, the present day US and British Virgin Islands were a colony of Denmark, but were under the Catholic jurisdiction of the Diocese of San Juan in Puerto Rico, a Spanish colony. The first catholic church in the Virgin Islands was Holy Cross Catholic Church in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix, opening in 1755. [1]
The diocese encompasses the islands of five Anglophone countries in the Lesser Antilles : Antigua and Barbuda, which has the see Holy Family Cathedral in St John's, Antigua; Saint Kitts and Nevis, which has a co-cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Basseterre, St Kitts; Anguilla; Montserrat; the British Virgin Islands.
St. William's Church [1] is a Catholic church [2] in Road Town, [3] the capital of the British Virgin Islands.. Although the community was founded in 1957 with a small chapel it was completed in 1993 and the first church much larger current building dates from 1999 and included the construction of a parish hall and administrative offices.
The Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as The Virgin of the Navigators, 1531–1536, with her protective mantle covering those entrusted to her [1]. The consecration and entrustment to the Virgin Mary is a personal or collective act of Marian devotion among Catholics, with the Latin terms oblatio, servitus, commendatio and dedicatio being used in this context. [2]