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8 February: Saint Josephine Bakhita, virgin – Memorial; Last Saturday of May: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart – Memorial; 9 September: Saint Peter Claver, priest and Patron of the Order – Solemnity; 1 October: Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church, Patroness of Missions – Feast
Blaise is a saint in the Catholic, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February.
Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947.
MICDS (Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School) is a secular, co-educational, independent school home to more than 1,250 students ranging from grades Junior Kindergarten through 12. Its 110-acre (45 ha) campus [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is located in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue .
It depicts formerly enslaved Afro-Italian nun and saint Josephine Bakhita opening a trapdoor as she frees figures that represent human-trafficking victims. The sculpture contains almost a hundred figures representing the different faces of human trafficking including sex exploitation, forced labor, debt bondage and more.
The school is located on 20 acres (8.1 ha) in the middle of St. Louis's South County suburbs. It is small for a school of its kind, with only around 90 students from grades 7 through 12, about a quarter of whom are international students. Boarding students and day students attend in about equal numbers.
68 Sherman Rd., St. Louis, MO 63125-4125 (unincorporated St. Louis County) To be amalgamated into St. Mark on August 1, 2023. [72] St. Catherine Laboure (Sappington) 9740 Sappington Rd., St. Louis, MO 63128-1293 (unincorporated St. Louis County) St. Clare of Assisi (Ellisville) 15642 Clayton Rd., Ellisville, MO 63011-2398 St. Clement of Rome
Mother Josephine Bakhita of Sudan (1869–1947) was also named a Canossian saint on 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II. Members proposed for sainthood [ edit ]