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Eventually, this was shortened to "Maryknoll". The Maryknoll Society was the first Catholic missionary society in the United States; up until then the United States was considered mission territory. [1] The Maryknoll Mission Center and Museum is located in Ossining. [2] Maryknoll has its own Post Office and zip code (10545). [3]
The Maryknoll Seminary Building is located in Ossining, Westchester County, New York. The building currently houses the headquarters of Maryknoll missions. The building has distinctive design, specifically with pagodas built into its architecture, to honor its founding purpose as a mission order to the Far East .
The Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) [1] are an institute of Catholic religious sisters founded in the village of Ossining, Westchester County, New York, in 1912, six months after the 1911 creation of the Maryknoll community of missionary brothers and fathers.
The Church of the Transfiguration is a Roman Catholic parish located at 25 Mott Street on the northwest corner of Mosco Street (formerly Park Street) in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [3] The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York and is staffed by the Maryknoll order.
14 April 1936 in Maryknoll, New York, United States Priest and Cofounder, Maryknoll Missionary Society; Titular Bishop of Siene-Assuan New York [35] Heroic Virtues
Msgr. John P. Boland, [152] Buffalo, New York priest known for work with the labor movement. Fr. Martin Stanislaus Brennan [153] [154] Scientist who wrote about the relationship between religion and science. Msgr. Ambrose Burke, [155] [156] A former President of St. Ambrose University.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond Counties in New York City (coterminous with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, respectively), as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state.
In 1907, her cousin James Butler donated land near Tarrytown, New York for the founding of the college. [4] The college was founded as an independent girls' boarding school by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM) to "create a place of learning where women could grow and where they could receive an education that would prepare them ...