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3 unusual facts about Levi Silliman Ives


Levi Silliman Ives

Signalling his prominence, it was Pope Pius IX who received him into the Church on December 26, 1852.

Having become deeply attracted to the Oxford Movement while studying Church history, Ives founded a religious community called the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina.

Valle Crucis, North Carolina

There was scattered settlement in the region in the 1840s when an Episcopal missionary, Levi Silliman Ives, came to the area.



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