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Saint Philomena School was founded in 1953 by the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus, and today boasts a student body of approximately 480. The school was originally located in a single building on the Narragansett Bay, but has grown over the years into a campus of five buildings, including a free-standing auditorium and a new, state-of-the-art classroom building.
The school was founded by the Daughters of the Cross in 1893 [3] and is situated in twenty-five acres of parkland with some notable buildings. The main building on the property was once Carshalton House, a grand manor house built in the early eighteenth century by Edward Carleton.
Saint Philomena School or Saint Philomena Catholic School may refer to: United Kingdom: St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, London; St. Philomena's School, Frinton-on-Sea, England; St Philomena's Primary School, St Mary Cray, Orpington; United States: St. Philomena Catholic School, Carson, California (Los Angeles area) St. Philomena ...
[10] 2 months later, a gas explosion damaged the church's lower school, injuring one person. [11] For the first 45 years of its existence, St. Philomena's pastor was Francis J. Markee (1855–1943), who served until his death in June 1943. [12] Rev. A. Paul Lambert succeeded him as priest in July 1943. [13]
St. Philomena's Girls High School, Poonthura is a girls' high school located in Poonthura, Kerala, India. It is run by the Canossian Daughters of Charity [ 1 ] and was established in 1952. References
Philomena (/ ˌ f ɪ l ə ˈ m iː n ə / FIL-ə-MEE-nə), also known as Saint Philomena (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Φιλουμένη, romanized: Hagía Philouménē; Modern Greek: Αγία Φιλομένα, romanized: Agía Filoména) or Philomena of Rome (c. 10 January 291 – c. 10 August 304) was a virgin martyr whose remains were ...
Sisters Helena and Barbara Stefaniak had their worlds turned upside down after the start of World War II. The sisters, who were living in Poland, were separated and put into work camps as teens ...
The school house was erected in 1865, the parsonage in 1872. The congregation numbered 200 families in 1896. Services were no longer held in German after World War I began. Because of the church's location near the riverfront, St. Philomena's steeple was a well-known landmark on the Cincinnati skyline. On July 7, 1915 a tornado damaged the steeple.