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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.
Eulalia (c. 289 – February 12, 303), co-patron saint of Barcelona, was a 13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who was martyred in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian (the Sequence of Saint Eulalia mentions his co-emperor the "pagan king" Maximian).
St. Joseph's Academy is a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school in Frontenac, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. [2] It is operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The school is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
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 .
Trinity Catholic was established in 2003 from the merger of St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy and Rosary high schools to serve north St. Louis County. [3] Its school building had opened in 1959. [4] The origins of Trinity Catholic began with Mercy High School, established in 1948 as a co-educational institution serving central St. Louis City and
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.
The School Sisters of Notre Dame taught in the parish school from 1859 to 1969. The parish buildings were declared a City Landmark in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] [3] A decrease in the number of Catholics in the area led to a merger with neighboring parishes. It merged with Our Lady of Perpetual Help ...
The high school closed in May 2008, and in fall 2009, the grade school program with pre-kindergarten through 8 moved to the former high school building. The grade school later closed in May 2014. The building currently sits empty, but the Catholic Charities Office of the Archdiocese of St. Louis plans to move into the former high school ...