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The City of St. Jude is a 36-acre (15 ha) campus in Montgomery, Alabama, hosting a high school, hospital, and Catholic church. It was founded in 1934 by Fr Harold Purcell with the aim of bringing "light, hope and dignity to the poor," regardless of race.
The final night of the march, March 24, participants camped at the City of St. Jude, a Roman Catholic church, school, and hospital complex. Established in 1937, St. Jude was intended to be a social service center for Montgomery's Black community. When the hospital opened in 1951, it was the first fully integrated hospital in Alabama.
St. Jude Educational Institute was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It was located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile, and was built as part of the City of St. Jude by Father Harold Purcell for the advancement of the Negro people. [3] St. Jude was opened in 1946.
As part of a regionalization plan approved by Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb in 2001, it merged with St. Bede Catholic Elementary School (K-8) and Our Lady Queen of Mercy Elementary School (K-8) to become Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School. In 2004 it opened a middle school for grades 7-8, and in 2012, it opened Holy Spirit Elementary School.
St. Peter Catholic Church is the first Roman Catholic Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and the third oldest Catholic church in Alabama. [1] It was opened in 1834, but had no resident pastor until 1850. [2] Many of the church's original parishioners were converts from wealthy, educated, Protestant families. [3]
St. Peter Catholic Church (Montgomery, Alabama) T. Trinity Presbyterian Church (Montgomery, Alabama)
The primary residence of the Friars is in Irondale, Alabama, and is next door to EWTN. They also have a residence in Hanceville, AL, near the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The Friars' apostolate is to communicate the Catholic faith by word and example. It involves using the media: television, radio and the Internet, as well as ...
Caritas Internationalis (Latin for ' Charity International ') is a confederation of 162 national Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. [7]