The area is named after financier Francis Anthony Drexel, the father of Saint Katharine Drexel ( who established missions to Blacks and Native Americans throughout the United States ).

As a young woman Saint Katharine turned her back on a life of privilege to serve the poor, focusing on Native-and African Americans.

Some of the more notable artists appearing on Hyacinths and Thistles are Bob Mould, Sally Timms ( The Mekons ), Sarah Cracknell ( Saint Etienne ), Neil Hannon ( The Divine Comedy ), Gary Numan, Marc Almond, Momus, Clare Grogan ( Altered Images ), Melanie, Miss Lily Banquette ( Combustible Edison ), Katharine Whalen ( Squirrel Nut Zippers ) and the accomplished toy piano player Margaret Leng Tan.

* Saint Katharine Mary Drexel ( 1858 – 1955 )

* Katharine Drexel, a Catholic Saint

He was the uncle of Saint Katharine Drexel.

Saint Katharine Drexel, S. B. S., ( November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955 ) was an American religious sister, heiress, philanthropist and educator, later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

The Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and National Shrine is located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

The Mission Center offers retreat programs, historic site tours, days of prayer, presentations about Saint Katharine Drexel, and lectures and seminars related to her legacy.

A second-class relic of St. Katharine Drexel can be found inside the altar of the Mary chapel at St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and in the Day Chapel of Saint Katharine Drexel Parish in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

* Recipient of the Saint Katharine Drexel medal: Sr. Sandra Smithson, aka: Sr. Maria Crucis, OSF, March 3, 2011.

Cromwell also appeared on Broadway in the role of Brother Martin Ladvenu in Katharine Cornell's revival of Saint Joan ( 1936 ), which was directed by Guthrie McClintic ; and as Freddy Eynsford Hill in Cedric Hardwicke's revival of Pygmalion ( 1945 ) starring Gertrude Lawrence as Eliza Doolittle and Raymond Massey as Henry Higgins.

Green, III, Francis Anthony Drexel, Saint Mother Katharine Drexel, 1930s news commentator Boake Carter and Gia Carangi.

The community is also served by Saint Michael Indian School, a K-12 private, Catholic school established by Saint Katherine Drexel in 1902.

These include the Library / Resource center, the Norman C. Francis science addition, the University Center, the Living Learning Center, the Saint Martin Deporres hall and the Katherine Drexel hall.

It was reported that in January 2006 a Saint Kitts & Nevis flagged cargo ship loaded with vehicles and parts meant for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo was seized while in port within Equatorial Guinea.

( 1984 ) The Saint on a Mission.

The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.

And, while the ruins of " The Great Stone Church " ( which was all but leveled by an 1812 earthquake ) are a renowned architectural wonder, the Mission is perhaps best known for the annual " Return of the Swallows " which is traditionally observed every March 19 ( Saint Joseph's Day ).

* Saint Joseph Catholic Church of Old Mission San José

In 1904 the Latter-day Saint South-western States Mission organized a colony at Kelsey.

The tribe was named Luiseño by the Spanish due to their proximity to the Mission San Luís Rey de Francia (" The Mission of Saint Louis King of France ," known as the " King of the Missions "), which was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, in what was the First Military District in what now is Oceanside, California, in northern San Diego County.

Mission padres named the valley, San Jacinto, which is Spanish for Saint Hyacinth, and around 1820 they established an outpost there.

In the 1700s the valley in which San Diego Country Estates is located received its name when Father Mariner of Mission San Diego de Alcalá discovered the location, proclaiming it a constant and beautiful valley, and named it in honor of Saint Vincent.

Mission Santa Barbara was dedicated December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara ..

The township contains these three cemeteries: Calvary, Most Holy Redeemer and Saint Columba's Episcopal Mission.

and one at Shubenacadie ( Saint Anne's Mission ).

* 1958-Rochunga Pudaite completes translation of Bible into Hmar language ( India ) and was appointed the leader of the Indo-Burma Pioneer Mission ; Missionaries Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint make first peaceful contact with the Huaorani tribe in Ecuador.

It is named after the Saint Paul Mission founded by Archbishop François Norbert Blanchet, who arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1838 to minister to the Catholic inhabitants of French Prairie.

Some of the most notable parks in Spokane's extensive park system are Riverfront Park, Manito Park and Botanical Gardens, Riverside State Park, Mount Spokane State Park, Saint Michael's Mission State Park, John A. Finch Arboretum, and the Dishman Hills Conservation Area.

In 1905 the congregation moved to new a " tin tabernacle " iron building that had been newly erected in Albion Street and consecrated as Saint Barnabas ' Mission Church, a daughter church of St. Nicholas '.

They also operate the Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska, while the Sisters ' motherhouse is located in Spokane, Washington ( Mount Saint Michaels Mission ).

Additionally, the denomination has its own agency for sending missionaries around the world ( Mission to the World ), its own ministry to students on college campuses ( Reformed University Fellowship ), its own camp and conference center ( Ridge Haven in Brevard, North Carolina ), and its own liberal arts college ( Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee ) and seminary ( Covenant Theological Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri ).

In 1665 / 66, her fortune telling was questioned by the priests of Saint Vincent de Paul's order, the Congregation of the Mission, but La Voisin defended herself successfully before the professors at the Sorbonne.

In 1613, French Jesuits, welcomed by Indians, established the first French mission in America — Saint Sauveur Mission — on what is now Fernald Point, near the entrance to Somes Sound.

: Saint Brother Albert Chmielowski Polish Mission

: Saint Mary of the Assumption Croatian Mission

: Mission Santa Clara ( distinct from Saint Clare Parish, located across the street )

*" Boniface VIII against the Revolution " ( Saint Benedict Center )

*" Boniface VIII and the Heresy of Statism " ( Saint Benedict Center )

On December 15, 2010, Edwards died of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

* Saint John's University-has a Graduate Center in Oakdale

The Helena Civic Center and the Cathedral of Saint Helena are two of many unique historic buildings in Helena.

In 1959 the Museum of Science and Natural History ( now the Saint Louis Science Center ) was formally created by the Academy of Science of Saint Louis featuring many interactive science and history exhibits.

* Saint Agnes Medical Center

Associated with the school are the Saint Vincent College Drug and Alcohol Prevention Projects and the Fred M. Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media.

Okolona has several churches ; the Saint Clair Baptist Church, Okolona Baptist Church, Okolona First United Methodist Church, and Center Grove United Methodist Church.

There are six churches in New Hartford: two Congregational churches ( the oldest church in the town, at New Hartford Center, and another in the village of Nepaug ), an Episcopal church ( at Pine Meadow ), Saint Paul ’ s Lutheran church, a Methodist church ( in the village of Bakerville ), and Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church.

Lewiston is home to Bates College, the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College, and two significant regional general hospitals: Central Maine Medical Center and Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center.

The township contains these two cemeteries: Saint Matthews and Vernon Center.

It includes two other contributing sites: the Center Cemetery and the Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery.

Saint Benedict Center

The monks ' apostolate has expanded to providing retreats at the recently-constructed Saint Benedict Center, four miles north of Schuyler.

Saint Francis Hospital SFH and Vassar Brothers Medical Center VBH are located in nearby Poughkeepsie, New York.

Among Bay Shore's places of worship are: The First Congregational Church, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Sinai Reform Temple, Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, Bay Shore Jewish Center, the United Methodist Church, Bethel A. M. E Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, and Calvary Baptist Church.

* Saint Peter School, on Center Ridge Rd.

Slightly to the south lies Center Benwood, which is the primary residential section of the city and contains Saint John Roman Catholic Church ( established in 1875 ), Saint James and Saint John School, Benwood City Park ( established in 1973 ), the Fourth Street Playground, the city building, the fire, water and police departments, the post office, the Blake Brothers Post No. 46 American Legion and the original Undo's Family Restaurant.

Saint John Roman Catholic Church, located on Main Street in Center Benwood, was officially established as a parish on August 1, 1875 when the first resident pastor, Rev.

Saint James and Saint John School is a Roman Catholic elementary and middle school ( preschool through eighth grade ) located on 7th Street in Center Benwood.