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  2. Alms - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, the giving of alms is viewed as an act of charity. [11] In the Apostolic age, Christians were taught that giving alms was an expression of love. Such care for the poor was to be understood as love for God, who, in the person of Jesus Christ, sacrificed himself for the salvation of believers. [d]

  3. Almshouse - Wikipedia

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    They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and at elderly people who could no longer pay rent, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest. "Alms" are, in the Christian tradition, money or services donated to support the poor and indigent ...

  4. Richard Watts Charities - Wikipedia

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    Richard Watts Charities incorporate Richard Watts Charity set up in the will of Richard Watts in 1579, as well as several other charities in Rochester, Medway.The will originally provided for an almshouse in Rochester High Street: The Poor Travellers House; over time, the money later provided for almshouses in Maidstone Road, along with other accommodation in Rochester, totalling 66 self ...

  5. Almonry - Wikipedia

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    The almonry was a building, analogous to our more prosaic modern alms-houses, erected by King Henry VII and his mother, the Lady Margaret, to the glory of God, for twelve poor men and poor women. [4] The almonry at Evesham was a separate building that was home to the almoner of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary and St. Ecgwine. [5]

  6. Poor box - Wikipedia

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    Mite box in the St.-Gallus-Kirche in Ladenburg, Germany. A poor box, alms box, offertory box, or mite box is a box that is used to collect coins for charitable purposes. . They can be found in most Christian churches built before the 19th century and were the main source of funds for poor re

  7. Shee Alms House - Wikipedia

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    Sir Richard Shee founded the alms house, originally called the Hospital of Jesus, during the period when the family was a powerful merchant family in Kilkenny. [2] He created the house in 1582 and endowed it in his last will in 1603. Lucas Shee, his son, arranged a royal charter for the Almshouse which was granted 4 November 1609. In 1752 the ...

  8. Blockley Almshouse - Wikipedia

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    In the next few decades, the original almshouse buildings were gradually replaced with modern facilities. By the 1950s the site contained the city's public hospital, as well as a nursing home and a home for the indigent. In 1952, the new City Home Rule Charter placed the control of Philadelphia General Hospital with a board of trustees.

  9. Friends' Almshouse of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Erected along with six other homes in 1713 as free housing for the poor of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the cottage was demolished in 1876. The Friends' Almshouse of Philadelphia was founded in 1713 by the city's Quaker leadership to help destitute members of the Society of Friends , although people of ...