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  2. Charlene Richard - Wikipedia

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    Charlene Marie Richard (January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959) was a twelve-year-old Roman Catholic Cajun girl from Richard, Louisiana) in the United StatesShe has become the focus of a popular belief that she has performed a number of miracles.

  3. San Giovanni Battista de La Salle al Torrino - Wikipedia

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    It features a 1960 mural painting by Mario Caffaro Rore which covers 60 m 2 (650 sq ft) and depicts Jean-Baptiste de La Salle teaching children. Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass in the church in 2012. It claims relics of de la Salle, John Vianney, Jane Frances de Chantal and Pope John XXIII. [4]

  4. Holy card - Wikipedia

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    A German holy card from around 1910 depicting the crucifixion The earliest known woodcut, St Christopher, 1423, Buxheim, with hand-colouring Prayer card of the Holy Face of Jesus In the Christian tradition, holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures for the use of the faithful that usually depict a religious scene or a saint in ...

  5. St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church (Destrehan, Louisiana)

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    St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, "Little Red Church" - Historical Marker. The log cabin chapel built in 1740, burned in 1806 and was replaced by a wood-framed church painted red during that same year. The church became known as the "Little Red Church". [7] It was a famous riverboat landmark where boat captains traditionally paid off their ...

  6. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle - Wikipedia

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    John Baptist de La Salle : the spirituality of Christian education. Paulist Press. ISBN 978-0809141623. Calcutt, Alfred (1994). De La Salle : a city saint and the liberation of the poor through education : a figure for our times from the age of Louis XIV. De La Salle. ISBN 978-0952139805.

  7. De La Salle Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the founder of the De La Salle Brothers. The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes; Italian: Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France ...

  8. Altar cards - Wikipedia

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    Altar cards were not used before the sixteenth century, and even today they are not used when a bishop celebrates the Tridentine Mass, because he reads the entire Mass from the Pontifical Canon. [1] When Pope Pius V restored the Missal, only the card at the middle of the altar was used, and it was called the "Tabella Secretarum". [1]

  9. Istre Cemetery Grave Houses - Wikipedia

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    No one knows why the Cajun Catholic settlers in the Acadiana Prairie region of south Louisiana began building grave houses. There are numerous legends about how the tradition started. The significance [ 3 ] of the grave houses is uncertain; historians have variously proposed that the houses were a form of protection or a local interpretation of ...