Marchal, Ambrose The third Archbishop of Baltimore; born at Ingres near Orléans, France, 28 August, 1764; died at Baltimore, 29 January, 1828. Yielding to his parents’ desires he studied for the legal profession, but later entered the Sulpician seminary at Orléans, where he received tonsure towards the close of 1787. Owing to the chaotic condition … Continue reading “Maréchal, Ambrose”
Marywood University
Marywood University Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; colleges of arts and sciences, commerce, education, social service, home economics, fine arts, music; graduate and extension courses; summer school. See also: Marywood University . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Mary’s Lent
Mary’s Lent A period of fasting, 1 to 14 August, observed among the Greeks, the Copts, and the Russians, during which they abstain from meat, eggs, and sometimes fish and milk, etc., according to custom and locality. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Marymount College
Marymount College Tarrytown, New York, conducted by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary; preparatory school; colleges of arts and sciences, home economics, fine arts; graduate course. Now part of the Fordham University system. See also: Marymount College . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Marymas
Marymas A name formerly given to special feasts in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, particularly to the feast of the Annunciation; also, in medieval England , the Mass said in the Lady chapel or in honor of Mary, Mother of God. To this day, in the ultra-Protestant county of Ayrshire, Scotland, a fair held … Continue reading “Marymas”
Maryland
Maryland The 7th state to be admitted to the United States, 28 April 1788. In the Catholic colony of Maryland, established 1634, by Leonard Calvert, second son of George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, at whose request the charter had been granted, “religious liberty,” as Bancroft says, “obtained a home, its only home in the … Continue reading “Maryland”
Maryknoll House of Studies
Maryknoll House of Studies Brookland, District of Columbia, post-graduate seminary for missionary work, founded, 1922 and affiliated with the Catholic University. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Maryknoll
Maryknoll Founded, with the sanction of Pope Pius X, by Reverend Thomas F. Price and Reverend James A. Walsh, 1911 ; formally incorporated under the seal of the State of New York, 1912 ; brought under the immediate jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples which approved the rule of the society for … Continue reading “Maryknoll”
Maryhelp abbey
Maryhelp abbey Comprised Catawba, Cleveland, Burke, Gaston, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk, and Rutherford counties, an area of 3,626 square miles. Belmont Abbey, also called Maryhelp Abbey, was founded as Saint Mary’s College by the Benedictines , 1878 , raised to an abbey in 1884 , and erected into an abbey nullius on 8 June 1910 . … Continue reading “Maryhelp abbey”
Marygrove College
Marygrove College Detroit, Michigan, founded 1910; conducted by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; preparatory school; colleges of arts and sciences, music; normal school; summer school. See also: Marygrove College New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary