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through initiatives like the FORMED digital platform and the annual Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to the Martyrs’ Shrine. Founded in 1953, St. Ambrose Church

Ambrose Church was founded in 1958 to serve the growing Catholic population in Parchment, Michigan, a small community near Kalamazoo. The Roman Catholic Diocese

formal establishment in 1954 under Rev. Edward T. Daly as founding pastor. Saint John the Beloved Academy was founded in 1954. Over the decades, renovations

serve Catholics in the growing Colonial Heights area, the parish initially held Masses in local facilities before dedicating its church in 1961. Saint Elizabeth

Christians—the parish serves Catholics in Shenandoah County and surrounding rural areas. Established in 1956 to meet the pastoral needs of the growing Catholic

territorial parish in the Diocese of Arlington, located in Annandale, Virginia. Dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel, the leader of the heavenly armies

elevated to parish status shortly thereafter, the parish grew rapidly in the postwar suburbs. Saint John the Beloved Academy opened in 1954. The church has

Catholics in the expanding McLean area. Initial Masses were held in public schools. The current church was dedicated in 1967. The parish joined the Diocese

Senhora dos Mares (Parish of Our Lady of the Seas) is a territorial parish in the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia, located in the Ondina neighborhood

were held in the Dunn Loring Firehouse. A chapel, school, and rectory were dedicated in 1957. The parish joined the Diocese of Arlington in 1974. A new

beneath the high altar (excavated 1940s–1950s; bones identified in purple cloth). Relics in dome piers: Holy Lance (St. Longinus) Fragment of the True Cross

Baptism followed the next day in the local parish church, as recorded in diocesan registers, marking the beginning of a life steeped in Catholic tradition

echoes (e.g., verticality in windows and tower), common for churches built in the Archdiocese of Newark during the 1950s–1970s. The interior features a central

9, 1579, in Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, to conquistador Juan de Porres and enslaved Ana Velázquez, as per baptismal records in the Parish of the Conception

dedicated in the mid-twentieth century, accommodating the increasing number of parishioners during the postwar period of growth in Garfield. Over the decades

opened in 1946 under the Sisters of Notre Dame, an interim church (later the gymnasium) was built in the early 1950s, a rectory in 1961, and the current

automobiles during the Feast of St. Christopher in the 1950s and hosting Vietnamese refugees in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, which marked the beginning of

suburban life of the late 1950s and 1960s. Ruth excelled academically from childhood, earning perfect grades and displaying creative talents in music and drama

widows and the poor. The second miracle, leading to Marguerite’s canonization, was the healing of a woman in Montreal from a brain tumor in the 1980s. Facing

1910 in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). She was baptised the following day in the parish church