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Circa 1901, a destitute 60-year-old man known only as Frenchy lived in adjacent to St. Mary's Cemetery, originally in a hand-dug cave in the woods and later in a stable situated on the fenceline. He was possibly a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War , and he decorated his coat with bits of metal he found discarded on the grounds.
In the summer of 1865, Martin John Spalding, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, suggested to the Reverend Dr. C.I. White, pastor at St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., that a new parish be created in the city's west end to meet the needs of the area's rapidly growing Roman Catholic population.
Baptized in Didsbury, Lancashire, England on 18 March 1609/10, Obadiah Holmes was the son of Robert Hulme (baptized 18 August 1578), a husbandman living in Reddish, Lancashire, and the grandson of an earlier Robert Hulme who was buried at Stockport on 14 January 1604/5.
St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr's Church, Manhattan The Church of St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr is home to the oldest Polish Roman Catholic parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York , It is located at 101 East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City .
North American Martyrs and St. Kateri Tekakwitha The National Shrine of the North American Martyrs , also known as the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs , is a Roman Catholic shrine in Auriesville, New York dedicated to the three Jesuit missionaries who were martyred at the Mohawk Indian village of Ossernenon in 1642 and 1646.
Ravi Zacharias was born on 26 March 1946 in Madras, India, and grew up in Delhi. [4]Zacharias' family was Anglican, [9] but he was a "skeptic" until the age of 17 when he attempted suicide by swallowing poison.
The martyrs are inscribed in the current Roman Martyrology on 19 January. [5] Their feast or commemoration was included on that date in the General Roman Calendar from the 9th century to 1969, when they were excluded because nothing is known with certainty about them except their names, their place of burial (the cemetery Ad Nymphas on the Via ...
Mark and Marcellian (Latin: Marcus et Marcellianus) are martyrs venerated as saints by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. [1] Their cult is sometimes associated with that of Saints Tranquillinus, Martia, Nicostratus, Zoe, Castulus, and Tiburtius, though not in the official liturgical books of the Church, which mention only Mark and Marcellianus (in first place) among ...