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When the Catholic Church created the Diocese of Greensburg in 1951, the first bishop, Rev. Hugh Lamb, lived at St. Emma's while making the initial arrangements. St. Emma also served as the diocesan chancery for the first year. The sisters built a retreat house in 1954. The sisters built the first monastery wing in 1960 and the second wing in 1963.
Faulkner is an unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland, United States. [2] It is home to the Loyola Roman Catholic retreat center. [3] Near here, John Wilkes Booth, assisted by Thomas A. Jones of Huckleberry Farm, was rowed across the Potomac River into Virginia, a week after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
St. Therese Retreat Center is a retreat house and shrine of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus dedicated to Thérèse of Lisieux located on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. History [ edit ]
Retreats were not originally seen as suitable for women, but in 1674 Catherine de Francheville , supported by the Breton Jesuit Vincent Huby , founded a retreat house for women in Vannes. This developed into a community of laywomen, who also founded a daughter house in Quimper , but were dispersed by the French Revolution.
The Passionist Order is a Roman Catholic fraternity founded in 1720 in what is now Italy. By the early 19th century, it had spread to English-speaking countries, and by 1852 it had reached the United States. The Catholic population of Massachusetts, small in the early 19th century, grew substantially due to immigration from Ireland and Quebec.
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Holy Cross Abbey is a monastery of the Catholic Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO), popularly known as the Trappists. The monastery is located near Berryville in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia , United States.
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