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From 1912 to 1936 the mission was headquartered in El Paso, Texas, and included missionaries serving in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California in the Spanish language. Turkish 30 Dec 1884
Fulton Sheen was born on May 8, 1895, in El Paso, Illinois, the oldest of four sons of Newton and Delia Sheen. His parents were of Irish descent, and their own parents were from Croghan, County Roscommon, Connacht. He was known as "Fulton", his mother's maiden name, but he was baptized as "Peter John Sheen".
8 May 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, United States 9 December 1979 in New York City, ... Martyrs of "La Florida" Missions (1549–1715) Luis de Cáncer: ca. 1500 in ...
The population was 2,756 at the 2020 census. [3] The Woodford County portion of El Paso is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area. El Paso is a small community in central Illinois that took on more characteristics of a highway community after the construction of Interstate 39, which supplanted the older alignment of U.S. Highway 51.
The final destination in her first mission trip was New Orleans in 1892, where she set up another school for Italians. The area was a hotbed of anti-Catholic sentiment, combined with racial discrimination against immigrants from Southern Italy, who locals believed did not "look White" In 1891, a large mob forcibly removed 11 Italian men in jail ...
Several Catholic missionaries also stayed in El Paso. [6] The missionaries in 1680 established the Mission Corpus Christi de la Isleta del Sur in what is today the Mission Valley district of El Paso. The mission is considered the oldest continuously functioning parish in the United States. [7]
1630 – An attempt is made in the El Paso, Texas area to establish a mission among the Mansos Indians; 1631 – Dutch clergyman Abraham Rogerius (anglicized as Roger), who authored Open Door to the Secrets of Heathendom (1651), begins 10 years of ministry among the Tamil people in the Dutch colony of Pulicat near Madras, India [150]
The Spanish and their Pueblo allies eventually settled in El Paso del Norte (present day El Paso, TX) where they established the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and where the Ysleta Mission was founded. [6] The spelling of Ysleta with a "Y" and the term del Sur (south) was to differentiate the new settlement from the mother pueblo, Isleta.