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St. Helena Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in St. Helena, California. Founded in 1866 by Fr. Peter Deyaert, it remains an active congregation in the Diocese of Santa Rosa . The church, like the town and nearby Mount Saint Helena , is dedicated to St Helena of Constantinople .
Mount Saint Helena (Wappo: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") [4] is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California.Composed of uplifted volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.
A relic from the Holy Catacombs of Pancratius.Image taken at an exhibition at the Historical Museum St. Gallen in Wil, Switzerland. Catacomb saints were the bodies of ancient Christians that were carefully exhumed from the catacombs of Rome and sent abroad to serve as relics of certain saints from the 16th century to the 19th century. [1]
The ancient Christians carved the first catacombs from soft tufa rock. (ref)" (World Book Encyclopedia, page 296) (ref)" (World Book Encyclopedia, page 296) All Roman catacombs were located outside city walls since it was illegal to bury a dead body within the city, [ 4 ] providing "a place…where martyrs ' tombs could be openly marked" and ...
St. Helena (/ h ə ˈ l iː n ə / hə-LEE-nə) is a city in Napa County, California, United States. Located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the population was 5,438 at the 2020 census. [8] St. Helena is a popular tourist destination, owing to its vineyards and culinary scene.
Sanitarium (formerly, Crystal Springs) [2] is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 587 feet (179 m). [1] Sanitarium is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Saint Helena.
Elmshaven is a historic house museum at 125 Glass Mountain Lane in St. Helena, California, United States.Also known as Ellen White House or Robert Pratt Place, it was the home of Ellen G. White from 1900 until her death in 1915.
The St. Helena Public Cemetery, at 2461 Spring St. in St. Helena, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [1] It is about one mile west of downtown St. Helena. It was established in 1856 by the Hudson family as a private burial ground, with the burial of Sarah Hudson.