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About the Image: The “spiritual father of Cuba” was a missionary, religious founder, social reformer, queen’s chaplain, writer and publisher, archbishop, and refugee. He was a Spaniard who worked in the Canary Islands, Cuba, Madrid, Paris, and the First Vatican Council. Anthony learned Latin and printing while working as...
Details: The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau is a passion play that has been performed every 10 years since 1634 by the inhabitants of the village of Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany. In the summer of 1871, the play was performed and documented by Gerald Molloy, whose work is available in book form...
Details: Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844, the first child of an extremely poor miller in the town of Lourdes in southern France[1]. She is often depicted in prayer with a rosary or appealing to the Holy Virgin[2]. St. Bernadette of Lourdes, original name Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, was beatified...
Details: The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Hot Springs, Arkansas was organized in 1908[1], with the Sisters of Mercy starting St. John School that same year[1]. Father Pablo began offering a Latin Mass at the church in May 1999[2], and a Souvenir Year Book...
Details: The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church[1]. It is centered in Iraq, from the northern part to Iran and Lebanon[2], and follows ancient, special traditions of its own[3]. It...
Details: Translation of the document: Most Holy Father, Della Mora Antonietta, humbly prostrate at the feet of Your Holiness, begs the Apostolic Blessing and a Plenary Indulgence at the hour of death, even if incapable to confess or receive Holy Communion, if she is penitent and invokes, with mouth or...
Details: Pope Leo XIII (born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) was the head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903[1]. He decreed that a prayer to St. Michael be said at the end of "low" Masses, along with the Salve Regina[2]. He was born in...
Details: Mother Mary Theodore Williams (born Elizabeth Barbara Williams; February 11, 1868 – July 14, 1931) was an American Black Catholic nun who founded the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary in 1916[1][2][3]. She received her education from the "Ladies of the Sacred Heart&...
Details: Mathilda Taylor Beasley was a Black Catholic educator and religious leader who was the first African American nun to serve in the state of Georgia. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1832 and baptized as a Catholic in 1869. Before the Civil War, she educated slaves in...
Details: Image from page 218 of "A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties). SISTER :MARY LUKE (GAFFXEY) Paul, Leavenworth, hails from Osawatomie. She is the first of St. Philips parish to enter Religion. 🙏🏽This image is in the public...
Details: Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP (born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange; c. 1789 – February 3, 1882) was a Black Catholic religious sister who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American religious congregation. She was also, via the Oblates, the first-ever African-American Mother Superior. Her cause for her beatification was opened...
Details: Pierre Toussaint (27 June 1766 – June 30, 1853) was a Haitian-American hairdresser, philanthropist, and former slave brought to New York City by his owners in 1787. A candidate for sainthood, he was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1996. Freed in 1807 after the death of his...
Details: Charles I, also known as Karl I, was the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary (as Charles IV, Hungarian: IV. Károly), King of Croatia, King of Bohemia (as Charles III, Czech: Karel III.), and the last of the Habsburg-Lorraine monarchs to rule over Austria-Hungary. Charles, the son of Archduke...
Details: A Madagascan Roman Catholic teacher and professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order, Lucien Botovasoa lived from 1908 to 14 April 1947. Botovasoa spent his entire life as a teacher and was committed to educating kids in both religious and secular subjects. In 1940, his desire for the monastic...
Details: Two nuns in their habits stand in front of a brick wall. Across the street behind them is the Paramount Theatre and a Cabaret advertising a movie starring Virginia Dare. The photographer titled this image, "Ideals Persist-Backdrops Change." 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download...
Details: The Feast of Corpus Christi procession to the church. According to Will Plazewski, the photo was taken between 1892, when the two-story wooden school (behind the trees) was built, and 1910, when construction began on the current church. From the extensive Florida postcard collection of Fr. Henry Riffle. 🙏🏽This...
Details: Men of the 38th Bomb Group attend a Catholic mass held on Christmas Day, 1942, in New Guinea. The 38th Bomb Group was one of the most heroic air groups in the Pacific war, but probably the least well known. A critical component to victory in Japan, the 38th...
Details: The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark's Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello. It is...
Details: Father Edward J. Waters, a Catholic Chaplain from Oswego, N.Y., conducts divine services on pier for members of the first assault troops thrown against Hitler's forces on the continent. Weymouth, England, June, 1944. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 49622614801_0be1002b2d_o.jpeg...
Details: Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. This is part of a travel album with photos and drawings...
Details: This is a portrait of a cleric with a cross around the neck, cassock, pelerine and wide sash. It is part of a photo album with 26 cartes-de-visite of Roman Catholic clergy from the late 19th century. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download RP-F-F00790-P.jpeg 1...
0:00/0:551×Details: Anthony Fenoughty and his wife, Catherine McAndrews, emigrated from County Mayo, Ireland, in 1817 They came to Kansas in 1868 and to Paola in 1870. There were four children in this family, all having lived to be over eighty years of age in Kansas. One...
Cardinal robert dunne Brave Search0:00/0:171×Details: Robert Dunne (5 September 1830 – 13 January 1917) was the second Roman Catholic bishop of Brisbane and later he became its first archbishop. Dunne was born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Ireland and was educated at Lismore Grammar School and the Irish...
Details: A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent. The term is often used interchangeably with religious sisters who do take simple vows but live an active...
