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1880 Garret Rock May Day Riot

For many years Paterson, New Jersey’s mostly Roman Catholic German immigrant community had gathered at Garret Rock, a large plateau at the summit of Garret Mountain in Passaic County, New Jersey near Patterson, in continuation of the ancient German spring festival of “Maying” or ascending a mountain to sing in the rising sun of the first Sunday of May.

Aisling

She laments the current state of the Irish people and predicts an imminent revival of their fortunes, usually linked to the return of the Roman Catholic House of Stuart to the thrones of Britain and Ireland.

Almery

In Roman Catholic usage, when commonly called an ambry, it is traditionally located in the sanctuary (as in, the altar area) of a church or in the Baptistery, and is used for the storage of the oils used in sacraments: Oil of catechumens (indicated by the Latin letters O.C.), Oil of the Sick (O.I.), and Sacred Chrism (S.C.).

André Sibomana

From 1988 André Sibomana was editor of the Roman Catholic newspaper Kinyamateka, owned by the Episcopal Conference, which was the only private newspaper in Rwanda and circulated widely in the Rwandan parishes.

Ashikaga Gakko

The pioneering Roman Catholic missionary, Saint Francis Xavier, noted in 1549 that the Ashikaga School was the largest and most famous university of eastern Japan.

Beresford, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2001 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican and Uniting.

Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz

Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz (born November 12, 1912 in Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador and died on April 6, 2000 in Quito Ecuador) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal.

Évry Cathedral

Évry Cathedral of the Resurrection (Cathédrale de la Résurrection d'Évry) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the new town of Évry (Essonne), France, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta.

Feckenham

The Anglican church of St. John the Baptist was built in the mid 13th century and a has a peal of eight bells; the Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More.

Giovanni Bellarini

Giovanni (John) Bellarini (1552 – 1630) was an Italian Roman Catholic theologian who wrote influential commentaries on the Council of Trent.

Girrawheen, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican, Buddhism and Islam.

Greater Sudbury municipal election, 2000

A devout Roman Catholic and a prominent member of the local Knights of Columbus, he oversaw the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and was president of the Friends of the Grotto Association for several years.

Hendrik S. Houthakker

As a teenager he lived through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and, according to an interview he gave to the Valley News, was once arrested by the Gestapo but escaped and was sheltered for some months by a Roman Catholic family.

Insight on the News

Soon after Insight's story, CNN reporter John Vause visited State Elementary School Menteng 01, a secular public school which Obama had attended for one year after attending a Roman Catholic school for three, and found that each student received two hours of religious instruction per week in his or her own faith.

James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne

Aboyne was a member of the powerful Gordon family, who were notable for their Roman Catholic sympathies in a kingdom where supporters of the Protestant Reformation controlled the central government.

Johannes Haw

Johannes Maria Haw (b. 26 May 1871; d. 28 October 1949) was a German Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Johannesbund of Leutesdorf and of the religious communities of the Community of the Sisters of St John of Mary the Queen (Ordensgemeinschaft der Johannesschwestern von Maria Königin) and the Society of Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist (die Gemeinschaft der Missionare vom Hl. Johannes dem Täufer).

John Yanta

John Yanta (born October 2, 1931, in Runge, Texas), is a former Roman Catholic bishop who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo in Amarillo, Texas.

Józef Padewski

He was moved to Tittmoning, Bavaria, where the future Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI had lived ten years previously as a small child.

Juan Subercaseaux

Monsignor Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz (August 26, 1896 - August 9, 1942) was a Chilean Roman Catholic archbishop.

Karloo, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2001 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican and Islam.

Kurt Krenn

Kurt Krenn (28 June 1936 – 25 January 2014) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop who ran a seminary for priests in Sankt Pölten, near Vienna.

Larry Tomczak

Born into a Roman Catholic family in Ohio, Tomczak became locally famous as the drummer for the Lost Souls, a five-piece rock'n'roll band described by Richie Unterberger as a "Cleveland sensation".

Leon Lemmens

Leon Lemmens (born March 16, 1954 in Boorsem, Maasmechelen, Belgium) is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium.

Lombez Cathedral

Lombez Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Marie de Lombez) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Lombez.

Luçon Cathedral

Luçon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Luçon) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Luçon in the Vendée.

Mâcon Cathedral

Mâcon Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Mâcon) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Mâcon, Burgundy, France.

Marie de Sales Chappuis

Venerable Marie de Sales Chappuis, was born Marie-Thérèse Chappuis (16 June 1793 in Soyhières, today in the Canton of Jura in Switzerland and at that time in the Département du Mont-Terrible in France – 6 October 1875 in Troyes, Aube, France) was a Roman Catholic nun and a spiritual leader in the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.

Mario Rizzi

Mario Rizzi (March 3, 1926 – April 13, 2012) was the Roman Catholic Italian titular archbishop of Bagnoregio and apostolic nuncio to Bulgaria 1991-1996.

Maris Stella School

Maris Stella School is a private Roman Catholic day school for girls from four to eighteen years old (grades 0-12 or pre-primary, primary and secondary phases), located on the Berea in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is a systemic Roman Catholic secondary school for girls', located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Mende Cathedral

Mende Cathedral (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and basilica minor, and also a national monument of France, located in the town of Mende.

Methods of praying the rosary

Five methods of praying the rosary are presented within the works of Saint Louis de Montfort, a French Roman Catholic priest and writer of the early 18th century.

Pala, Chad

The Roman Catholic bishopric of Pala served Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture, in 1970, Pala included 116,000 of Chad's 160,000 Catholics.

Pétrus Ky

In 1851, Truong was granted a scholarship by this school to study at the Penang Seminary, then the main centre of Roman Catholic training for Southeast Asian countries.

Prince Lerotholi Seeiso

Prince Lerotholi was baptized as David at the Roman Catholic St. Louis Church at Matsieng on 2 June 2007 by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi.

Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth

The Redemptorist Monastery in North Perth, Western Australia is a Roman Catholic church built in 1903 for the Redemptorist Order.

Rieux Cathedral

Rieux Cathedral (Cathédrale de la Nativité-de-Marie de Rieux) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Rieux-Volvestre.

Rogerius of Apulia

Rogerius of Apulia (also Rogerios; Ruggero di Puglia in Italian) (c. 1205 – 1266) was a medieval Roman Catholic monk and chronicler, born in Torremaggiore, Apulia.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Adelaide based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1986, covering the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Saint Andrew of Patras

The cross of the apostle was presented to the Bishop of Patras Nicodemus by the Roman Catholic delegation led by cardinal Roger Etchegaray.

Sisteron Cathedral

Sisteron Cathedral, now the Church of Notre-Dame-des Pommiers (Cathédrale or Concathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Thyrse de Sisteron; Église Notre-Dame des Pommiers, or "Our Lady of the Appletrees") is a Roman Catholic church, formerly a cathedral, and national monument of France, in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

St. Bernard's Church, Gibraltar

St. Bernard's started off as the Roman Catholic church of the British Armed Forces in Gibraltar.

St. Elizabeth Seton School Naples Florida

Elizabeth Seton Catholic School (often abbreviated to SES) is a co-educational parish private, Roman Catholic elementary and middle school in Naples, Florida.

Tarbes Cathedral

Tarbes Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède de Tarbes) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France located in the town of Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées.

Teemu Sippo

Teemu Jyrki Juhani Sippo S.C.I. (born 20 May 1947 in Lahti, Finland) is the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Helsinki.

The Angelus

Secretary of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs Leon Ó Broin and Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid had discussed the original idea in the late 1940s.

Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick

As Catholics, his family faced persecution after the overthrow of Charles I and fled to France.

William Bedell

In 1607 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton, then English ambassador at Venice, where he remained for four years, acquiring a great reputation as a scholar, theologian, printer, and Missionary to the faithfull leaving under Roman Catholic tyranny of the Inquisition.

William H. Stetson

William H. Stetson is a Roman Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei ordained in 1962.


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Ade Gardner

Gardner went to St Columbas Roman Catholic School and St. Bernard's Catholic High School at Primary and Secondary level respectively.

Barraquer

Francisco Vidal y Barraquer (1868–1943), Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tarragona from 1919

Berchmans

:John Berchmans Conway, a Roman Catholic religious sister working in Pakistan for 60 years.

Chaput

Charles J. Chaput, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Diocese of Christchurch

Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, a geographical area of the Roman Catholic Church, in New Zealand

Diocese of Dunedin

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin, a geographical area of the Roman Catholic Church, in New Zealand

Fourier

Peter Fourier (1565–1640), French saint in the Roman Catholic Church and priest of Mattaincourt

Fryburg, Ohio

Fryburg is well known for its annual Homecoming Festival, held the Sunday before Labor Day at St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Giacomo Quarenghi

It was through him that the architect secured a few minor English commissions, such as garden pavilions, chimneypieces (Loukomsky 1928), an altar for the private Roman Catholic chapel of Henry Arundell at New Wardour Castle.

Goupil

René Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary, one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church

Henry Manning

Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892), English Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster

His Eminence


(Portrait of Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernardino Spada by Guido Reni, c. 1631.)

Holy Cross Church, Frankfurt-Bornheim

At November 11, 2012 the quinquennial anniversary of the centre of meditation was celebrated with the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg Dr. Thomas Löhr and a lecture by the journalist and theologian Klaus Hofmeister of the Hessischer Rundfunk.

James Kearney

James E. Kearney, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, 1937–1966

John D'Arcy

John Michael D'Arcy (1932–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop

John Tracy

John Patrick Treacy (1891–1964), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

José Cedeño

José Dimas Cedeño Delgado (born 1933), Panamanian Roman Catholic archbishop

José María Obando

The conflict began when Congress passed a law to suppress small convents and monasteries and re-appropriate the land in Pasto, the law was not intended to punish the Church as the places in question were indeed small and sparingly occupied by mostly Ecuadorian clergy, but the deeply Roman Catholic province went up in arms at the involvement of the government in their religious affairs, even after the Bishop of Popayán had approved of the measure.

Joseph Lynch

Joseph Patrick Lynch (1872–1954), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Joseph Ohrwalder

Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana/South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there and escaped ten years later.

Juan Francisco Larrobla

Juan Francisco de Larrobla Pereyra (Montevideo, 9 January 1775 - Canelones, 5 July 1842) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric, theologian and patriot.

Léon Vaganay

Léon Vaganay (Saint-Étienne, 22 October 1882 - Vernaison, 30 March 1969) was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar.

Ludolf

George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff (1778-1858), prominent Prussian Roman Catholic convert and parliamentarian

Mailapur

Dioceses of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, a Roman Catholic dioceses of Mylapore, Madras, India

Manitoba general election, 1914

Although Education Minister George R. Coldwell insisted the amendments were only meant to clarify existing provisions, many voters believed the Roblin government wanted to re-introduce funding for separate Roman Catholic schools.

Marchington

The village's Roman Catholic church on Hall road is a small stone building and is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham

Mariastein Abbey

The abbey was secularised twice, in 1792, because of the French Revolution, and in 1874, as a result of a conflict between the state and the Roman Catholic Church known as Kulturkampf, after which the monks were obliged to seek refuge first in France, at Delle, and then, when in 1902 they were expelled as a result of legal changes in France, for a short time at Dürrnberg near Hallein in Austria, and finally in Bregenz, also in Austria.

Michael Kenny

Michael Hughes Kenny (1937–1995), Roman Catholic bishop of Juneau, Alaska

Mugica

Carlos Mugica (1930–1974), Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist

Natural method

Natural family planning, the family planning methods approved by the Roman Catholic Church

Paulines

Paulists, several Roman Catholic orders and congregations under the patronage of St Paul the Hermit and including the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit and the Minims

Pierre le Vif

The Abbey of St. Pierre-le-Vif (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif) was a Roman Catholic monastery in Sens.

Presbytery

Presbyterium, a body of ordained, active priests in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches

Pro-cathedral

St Andrews Pro Cathedral in Glasgow has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow since 1889.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Richard Spencer

F. Richard Spencer (born 1951), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA

Saint Jerome's Academy

Saint Jerome's Academy, also called SJA, is a private, Roman Catholic parochial school located at the town proper of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

Sodano

Angelo Sodano (born 1927), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth

From 1835 to 1851 the Roman Catholic minister in Monmouth was Thomas Burgess who went on to be the Bishop of Clifton.

St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

The original church with that dedication was the town's first permanent Roman Catholic place of worship; founded in 1875, it was paid for by Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk, a member of the most important Dukedom in England.

St. John's Cemetery

St. John's Cemetery, Frederick, Maryland, a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Frederick, Maryland

Trstenjak

Davorin Trstenjak (1817–1890), Slovenian writer, historian and Roman Catholic priest

Verulam House, St Albans

The former stable area provided land for the building of an adjacent Roman Catholic church under the patronage of the local MP of that time, Alexander Raphael.

Wars of Kappel

The wars of Kappel (Kappelerkriege) is a collective term for two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh

Wyszyński

Stefan Wyszyński, Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, cardinal