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Attached to the parish are a school and convent. St. Donato School enrolls 249 children. It is staffed by one Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart and 16 lay faculty. The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart convent was established by Mother Cabrini while she was based in Philadelphia.
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 board decided to rename an elementary school that had a non-person name. The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that it was likely the first school in the United States to be named after Frank, and the first school in the city with a teenager as its namesake. [2] Gideon, Edward School; Girard, Stephen School; Gompers, Samuel School
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 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.
Today, the Greater Bible Way Temple utilizes the building. Across the street from the former St. Gregory church, at the intersection of Media Street and North 52nd Street, is the former George Institute Branch Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. On January 9, 2011, a fire destroyed the former St. Gregory Parochial School building.
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 ...
The Marquis de Lafayette and the Comte de Rochambeau both worshiped at St. Joseph during their time in America. [4] Men from the American and French armies celebrated high mass at St. Joseph's after the victory at Yorktown. [5] In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic swept the central area of Philadelphia, killing a tenth of the population. Old St ...