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NHS Human Services School at St. Annes, which caters to children with autism, opened in its place in 2015. [108] St. Aloysius School – South Philadelphia. Closed in 1999; it and King of Peace School consolidated with St. Gabriel School to form Our Lady of the Angels School (at St. Gabriel). [89] St. Carthage School [110] St. Charles Borromeo ...
The cornerstone of the new Church of St. Veronica was blessed on November 3, 1907, and opened in 1909. Today it is a sister parish to Saints Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester, Pennsylvania. [10] St. Veronica School is an Independence Mission School today, one of 14 Philadelphia schools that were deemed "failing" by the state.
The school accepted boarders from around the world until the 1950s, when the dorms were converted into classrooms. Holy Child Academy was regarded as one of the most prestigious girls' private schools in the Philadelphia area, and when the enrollment reached several hundred students in the 1960s, a new and bigger school was built.
The school is named for Father Thomas Augustine Judge (1868–1933), who organized lay missionaries in the northeastern United States. [4] Fr. Judge founded the congregation of sisters whose "motherhouse" is located next to the high school; these sisters then donated a portion of the land to the archdiocese on which the school was built.
The parish celebrates the feast of St. Donato and of St. Frances X. Cabrini on the first Sunday of June. The celebration opens the annual carnival and the feast of Mother Cabrini was added to the celebration of St. Donato because she personally established the school and worshipped in the lower Church, and her Sisters remain active with the parish.
In 1928, this all girls high school was the first Catholic school to be approved by the Middle States Association accrediting agency. [1] In response to the growth of the school and evolving educational needs, the Mount moved in 1961 to its present site, just outside the community of Chestnut Hill near Philadelphia. Since relocation to the new ...
St. Leonard’s School of the Holy Child, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (closed in 1983 - was 1-12 until 1970, then 9-12) Connelly School of the Holy Child, Potomac, Maryland (6-12) Cornelia Connelly High School, Anaheim, California (closed in 2020) Holy Child Academy, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania (K-8) Holy Child Academy, Old Westbury, New York (K-8)
Fr. Watson, a graduate of St. William School, was ordained in 1992 and had served as Pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish at 20th and Christian Sts., in South Philadelphia prior to his assignment to St. Wililam. Fr. Watson served St. William Parish until June 20, 2016, when he was reassigned as pastor of Nativity of Our Lord in Warminster PA.