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Frances Xavier Warde School In 1994 Holy Name School, which had been facing a decline in the number of enrolled students, merged into Warde, and the former Holy Name became Warde School, Old St. Patrick's Campus so it could house the increasing number of students at Xavier. [13] Immaculate Conception School (7263 West Talcott Avenue)
Saint Xavier University was founded as a women's college by the Sisters of Mercy in 1846 at the request of Bishop William Quarter.With the City of Chicago less than 10 years old, the religious sisters, under the guidance of Mother Mary Francis Xavier Warde, R.S.M., established Saint Francis Xavier Female Academy.
Mother Mary Frances Xavier Warde was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2002. [6] The Frances Xavier Warde School, an elementary school in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago , is named after her.
A multitude of schools and universities have been named after St. Francis Xavier, a Spanish Roman Catholic saint and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.This page lists notable educational institutions named after St. Xavier, arranged by country and region.
In 1859 the College of St. Francis Xavier and St. John's College (now Fordham University) played the first collegiate level baseball game, featuring the new nine-man team style of play. Fordham won the game 33–11. [17] Xavier High School's JV Soccer team won the CHSAA Intersectional Championship in 2008 and 2009. [18]
Cabrini University was a private Catholic university in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. [3] It was founded by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1957, and was named after the first American naturalized citizen saint, Mother Frances Cabrini.
Francis Xavier was the basis of the Xaverian Brothers who would found numerous educational institutions across the world. The Xaverian Brothers, or Congregation of St Francis Xavier (CFX), are a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium, in 1839 and named after St. Francis Xavier. The order is dedicated ...
The sisters came to the United States in 1854 to establish many schools and hospitals throughout the country, starting in New York and California. They eventually spread throughout the country, and established two private, Roman Catholic all-girls high schools; Assumption High School and Academy of Our Lady Of Mercy. Mercy was originally built ...