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unusual facts about St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church, Mimico


Brendan Shanahan

The family attended St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church (in Mimico).


Auburn Gresham, Chicago

Auburn Gresham is home to the St. Leo Campus for Veterans, which includes the Catholic Charities' St. Leo's Residence, the Auburn Gresham Community Based Outpatient Clinic, the St. Leo's Veteran's Garden, and the Pope John Paul II Residence.

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunketts head from St. Peter's Church where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.

Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot

Wilmot married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury and widow of Gerard Moore, 1st Viscount Moore of Drogheda, who died in 1627; she survived till 3 June 1654, being buried on 3 July with her first husband in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda; her correspondence with the parliamentarians during the Irish wars gave James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde some trouble.

Dave Bolland

Born in 1986 in Mimico, a neighbourhood of Etobicoke, Ontario at the time, Bolland started playing hockey at the local arena, Mimico Arena, where he played for the Queensway Canadiens, then playing minor hockey for the Toronto Red Wings in the Greater Toronto Hockey League from 2000 until 2002.

Genesius of Rome

The British Catholic Stage Guild regards him as their patron saint, and the Shrine of St. Genesius in Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in the New York City Borough of Manhattan, serves as a spiritual landmark for the city's acting community.

Girolamo and Pietro Ballerini

He attracted the attention of Pope Benedict XIV, who commissioned him to prepare an edition of St. Leo's works in refutation of the defective one published by Quesnel.

Harry A. Millis

Wolman, Leo; Wander, Paul; Mack, Eleanor; and Herwitz, H.K. The Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1910-1922. Chicago: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1922.

Islington-City Centre West

In 1860, the original northern Mimico petitioned for its own post office, using the name Islington, which was suggested by the wife of Montgomery's Innkeeper who was born in Islington, England (now a part of London).

Mephistopheles

Ruickbie, Leo: Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician.

Música sertaneja

Given that the recording industry in the 2000s launched a similar movement called sertanejo universitário, with names like Marcos & Leo, Joao Bosco & Vinicius, César Menotti & Fabiano, Jorge & Mateus, Victor & Leo Fernando & Sorocaba, Marcos & Belutti, João Neto & Frederico.

New Toronto

Recent attempts to rejuvenate New Toronto include the protection of remaining industrial lands (for employment) and the old Mimico Lunatic Asylum buildings and grounds with the expansion of Humber College's Lake Shore campus and the Lakeshore Grounds, as well as the construction of the new Lakeshore Lions Arena on the former W & A Gilbey distillery site.

Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot

He also designed Church of St. Walburge in Preston, St Joseph's Church in Leigh, St Beuno's Ignatian Spirituality Centre in Tremeirchion and the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus in Manchester for the Jesuits.

Reid Harrison

He has written for television shows such as The PJs, George & Leo, Men Behaving Badly, Brother's Keeper, Gary & Mike, George of the Jungle, Pinky and the Brain, Duckman, Drawn Together, The Mullets, 3 South, and Tak and the Power of Juju.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayonne

Local tradition maintains that St. Leo, the martyr, with whose memory is associated a miraculous fountain, was the first Bishop of Bayonne.

Saint Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church

St. Paul's features 17 impressive stained-glass windows crafted by Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, The Gorham Company, Franz Mayer & Co. and Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

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. Leo's College

Saint Leo University, Florida, USA, previously known as Saint Leo College

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda

It is most famous for housing the National Shrine to St. Oliver Plunkett, who was martyred at Tyburn in 1681.

Thomas Sim Lee

They founded the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Petersville, Maryland.

York County, Ontario

Three Lakeshore communities later developed into separate municipalities: Mimico (1911 Village/1917 Town), New Toronto (1913 Village/1920 Town), Long Branch (1930 Village).


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