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The Grand Lodge of Costa Rica is the main organization of regular Freemasonry in Costa Rica. It was created on December 7, 1879 and was the first in Central America. [1]
The Conservatorio de Castella (Castella Conservatory) is an arts institute located on the Pan American Highway, in Heredia, Costa Rica.In 2016 the school was honored by a Declaratoria de Benemérito de la Patria, (Declaration of Merit of the Homeland), which recognized the historical distinction of the school, and also provided for campuses of the school to be established in each of the seven ...
Education in Costa Rica is divided in 3 cycles: pre-education (before age 7), primary education (from 6-7 to 12-13), and secondary school (from 12-13 to 17-18), which leads to higher education. School year starts between the second and third week of February, stops at the last week of June, it continues again between the third and fourth week ...
Freemasonry begins in Costa Rica at the same time as in Central America during the course of the 19th century. Regular masonry begins when it was founded by Costa Rican Catholic priest Francisco Calvo, ex-Chaplain General of the Army of Costa Rica during the Filibuster War of 1856, who introduced regular masonry in Central America in 1865. [1]
Costa Rica's first left-wing party, the Reformist Party was founded by priest Jorge Volio. Costa Rica's first labor union the Costa Rican Confederation of Workers "Rerum Novarum" was also Catholic and Christian socialist ideas influenced future president Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia while he studied medicine in
The four traditional schools of Tibetan Buddhism are present in Costa Rica. [2]The best known and first group is the "Asociación Cultural Tibetano-Costarricense" [5] (Tibetan-Costarrican Cultural Association), which was established in 1989 CE after the first visit of the XIV Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso in Latin America.
The Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica (Spanish: Conferencia Episcopal de Costa Rica), consisting of the Bishops of Costa Rica, is a permanent institution, with the approval of the Holy See, to signify the collegial spirit and live, study and solve problems together ecclesial interest collaboration, and promote the greater good which the Church seeks to humanity, through the various means and ...
Escuela San Felipe is a school in the San Felipe district of Alajuelita Canton, San José, Costa Rica. Founded in 1966, the school initially only had two classrooms. Founded in 1966, the school initially only had two classrooms.