Created by Girardville native Jimmy Gownley, the series, begun in 2001, has won several awards, been translated into numerous languages, and even turned into a stage musical.

Girardville is the site of an annual St. Patrick's Day parade that is one of the largest in Pennsylvania.

New Philadelphia, West Mahanoy, Shenandoah, and Girardville have the highest proportions of Lithuanian Americans of all places in the country.

Probably the most famous native of Girardville was Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

The family attended St. Joseph's Church in Girardville, where Dougherty was baptized by Father Michael A. Sheridan.

Peter and Paul ); Frackville ( Annunciation BVM ); Girardville ( St. Vincent de Paul ); Gilberton ( Our Lady of Siluva, formerly St. Louis ); and Coaldale ( St. John the Baptist ).

In 2003, Frackville became a partner of the Upper Schuylkill Regional Main Street program along with neighboring communities Ashland, Girardville, Mahanoy City, Ringtown and Shenandoah.

Girardville is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, northwest of Reading.

Girardville is home to radio station WQDD-107. 9 FM.

Girardville is located at ( 40. 792104 ,-76. 284555 ).

He was born in the village of Homesville on the outskirts of Girardville in 1865 and reigned as Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1918 until his death in 1951.

A citizen who became famous in the " wild west " is " Captain Jack " Crawford, ( also known as the " Poet Scout ") western actor, scout for General George Crook's campaign in the Black Hills, native of Carndonagh, Ireland and performer with William F. Cody ( Buffalo Bill ), was postmaster and had a small general store in Girardville in 1869-1874, leaving town to go out west to find Gold.

Another of Girardville's most famous citizens was John " Black Jack " Kehoe, the high constable of Girardville during the 1870s, whose charismatic leadership in the fight for labor rights by the coal miners of the period earned him a place in local, state, national and world history.

Today, Black Jack's tavern in Girardville, The Hibernian House, continues to be operated by his great grandson, Joseph Wayne and is a popular destination for historians, genealogists, and tourists searching for information on the Molly Maguires, the coal region culture, and their Irish roots.

Joseph, Charles and Albert Drulis were born and raised in Girardville and all 3 went on to star in football at Temple University.

Girardville is famous all over the coal region for its unique restaurants and pizzerias.

In fourteen recent test launchings, at ranges of five thousand miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two miles of the target.

The full implementation of these noble words, however, has taken the efforts of five sessions of the Legislature.

A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a.m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''??

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.

This subject, who has been undergoing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for five years, did not give a positive Kohnstamm reaction under any of the four standardized conditions used in this experiment while sober.

The National Manpower Council of Columbia University has estimated that three out of five skilled workers and one out of five technicians have not been formally trained.

`` My father is a sergeant of detectives and has been attached to Homicide for five years.

But where the core of NATO is concerned, the Secretary of State has not only reiterated the United States' profound attachment to the alliance, `` cornerstone '' of its foreign policy, but has announced that five nuclear submarines will eventually be at NATO's disposal in European waters.

Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.

Manager Hemus, eager to end a pitching slump that has brought four losses in the five games on the current home stand, moved Gibson to the Wednesday night starting assignment.

Family Service, sharing in UGF, has five agencies in the Washington area.

And in the last five years, the `` Methodist chapel committee has authorized the demolition or, more often, the sale of 764 chapels ''.

A 5, 000 year old earthen bowl found in Iran in Shahr-i Sokhta has five images of a goat painted along the sides.

It has eight long grooves containing up to five beads in each and eight shorter grooves having either one or no beads in each.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

: Definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling

One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

Palmer amaranth is among the " top five most troublesome weeds " in the southeast of the United States and has already evolved resistances to dinitroanilines and acetolactate synthase inhibitors.

For example, if the array has five elements, indexed 1 through 5, and the base address B is replaced by B − 30c, then the indices of those same elements will be 31 to 35.

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

The club is one of the five teams that has earned the right to keep the European Cup and to wear a multiple-winner badge ; they won consecutively in 1971 – 1973.

Soon they will fight their way into the lower middle-class suburbs, and the churches will experience the same decay and rebuilding cycle which has characterized their history for a century.

The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

Simultaneous with debates about social theology and ethics, the Anglican Communion has debated prayer book revision and the acceptable grounds for achieving full communion with non-Anglican churches.

" The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written ; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

In Lutheran churches the title of abbess ( Äbtissin ) has in some cases ( e. g. Itzehoe ) survived to designate the heads of abbeys which since the Protestant Reformation have continued as Stifte.

" The Athanasian Creed has been used by Christian churches since the sixth century.

During the early centuries of Christianity the title " pope " was applied generally to all bishops ; it now has more specific meanings that vary between churches.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

It was this edition which was to be the official Book of Common Prayer, during the growth of the British Empire, and, as a result, has been a great influence on the prayer books of Anglican churches worldwide, liturgies of other denominations in English, and of the English language as a whole.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

* The church has participated in numerous joint humanitarian efforts with other churches.

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

In the case of the Eastern Catholic Churches, individual churches sui juris retain, in theory, the right to glorify saints for their own jurisdictions, though this has rarely happened in practice.

In the early decades of the 20th century, churches sprang up in communities around the world, though in the last several decades of that century, there was a marked decline in membership, except in Africa, where there has been growth.

Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.

Dr. Stephen Barrett has reported that since 1971, the number of practitioners and teachers in the United States listed in the Christian Science Journal has fallen from nearly 5, 000 to just over 300 and the number of churches in the United States has fallen from about 1, 800 to about 900.

It is granted, with few exceptions ( namely in some Anabaptist churches ), that God has given the government of the Church into the hands of an ordained ministry.