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3 unusual facts about Society of St. John the Evangelist


Society of St. John the Evangelist

The members of the North American congregation live at a monastery designed by Ralph Adams Cram in Cambridge, near Harvard Square.

They also keep a rural retreat centre, Emery House, in West Newbury, where guests can stay in small hermitages in the meadow.

West Newbury, Massachusetts

West Newbury is home to Emery House, monastery guesthouse and sanctuary of the Society of St. John the Evangelist.


Amanda Husberg

For 50 years she has been the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, now a multicultural congregation in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Charles Donagh Maginnis

In the Boston area, Maginnis also built the church of St. Catherine of Genoa in Somerville, Massachusetts, St. John The Evangelist in Cambridge and St. Aidan's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts where he was a parishioner along with the Kennedy family and other prominent Irish-Americans.

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hucknall

It was dedicated on 6 March 1877 by Bishop Tozer, an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln.

Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

On February 12 2009, the conference's leaders met with Pope Benedict XVI in order to re-assert the importance of Jewish–Catholic relations in the wake of the controversy over negationist comments made by Society of St. Pius X bishop Richard Williamson.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

She was about to remove to Canada, when she made the acquaintance of a visiting priest, the Abbé Louis William Valentine Dubourg, S.S., who was a member of the French emigré community of Sulpician Fathers and then president of St. Mary's college.

Flavigny-sur-Ozerain

It has a seminary of the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist organisation, the Séminaire International Saint Curé d'Ars.

Franz Schmidberger

Franz Schmidberger (born 19 October 1946 in Riedlingen, Germany) is a priest of the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

Grand Lodge of All England

On 27 December 1725, the feast of St. John the Evangelist, the York lodge claimed the status of a Grand Lodge.

Guerard des Lauriers

Guérard des Lauriers then became a lecturer and professor at Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's St. Pius X seminary in Écône, Switzerland.

Mesa Preparatory Academy

In May 2012, Mesa Preparatory Academy won the Charter Athletic Association state baseball championship, after Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix, a traditionalist Catholic school affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X, refused to play in (and thus forfeited) the championship game against Mesa Prep because Mesa's team included a female infielder.

Paulines

Society of St. Paul, a Roman Catholic male religious congregation founded in 1914

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln

In 1996, bishop Fabian Bruskewitz issued a statement forbidding Catholics in the diocese to join a number of organizations, including the Society of St. Pius X, Call to Action, Planned Parenthood, Catholics for a Free Choice, the Hemlock Society, and various Masonic groups, under pain of excommunication.

Sacred Heart Choir, Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Davide Pagliarani of the Society of St. Pius X, who was then appointed the District Superior of Italy.

Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec

A Society of St. Pius X retreat house can be found at 905, Rang St-Mathieu Est.

Society of St. Pius X

The SSPX's main seminary is in Écône, Switzerland; others are located in the United States (Winona, Minnesota), France (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain), Germany (Zaitzkofen), Australia (Goulburn), and Argentina (La Reja).

Sodalitium Pianum

In 1985, the name Sodalitium Pianum was adopted by a sedeprivationist group of Traditionalist Catholics also known as Istituto Mater Boni Consilii, an offshoot of the Traditionalist Society of St. Pius X.


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