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Reverend John M. Banko from Mary Mother of God Church in Hillsborough was charged in August 2001 with first- degree aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. He was accused in 1999 of forcing oral sex on a 11 year old boy after mass on two occasions in 1993 or 1994.
November 22, 1928. San Rafael de Barrancas, Monagas, Venezuela. Died. August 7, 2004. (2004-08-07) (aged 75) Long Beach Island, New Jersey, United States. Maria Esperanza Medrano de Bianchini (November 22, 1928 – August 7, 2004), also known as Maria Esperanza, was a Venezuelan mystic, in Barrancas in the State of Monagas near the Orinoco River.
John Anthony Hardon, SJ (June 18, 1914 – December 30, 2000) was an American Jesuit priest, writer, teacher and theologian. A candidate for sainthood since 2005, he is recognized by the Catholic Church as a Servant of God. [1]
The Blue Army was founded in 1946 by Harold V. Colgan, parish priest of St. Mary of Plainfield, New Jersey (US). [1] [2] Father Colgan had fallen seriously ill and was hospitalized. During his illness he prayed to Our Lady of Fátima that if she should cure him he would spend the rest of his life spreading devotion to her. He attributed his ...
The Greek Orthodox Church of St. George of Piscataway, New Jersey is the largest Greek congregation in New Jersey, US. [2] In 2016 the congregation celebrated its 100th anniversary as well as the 43rd anniversary of its Greek Festival. [3] Its 48th Annual Greek festival takes place May 20–23, 2021.
Joachim ( / ˈdʒoʊəkɪm /; Hebrew: יהויקים, romanized : Yəhoyāqim, lit. 'he whom Yahweh has set up'; Greek: Ἰωακείμ, romanized : Iōākeím) was, according to Christianity, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary, mother of Jesus, and the maternal grandfather of Jesus . The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in ...
e. Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος) [ a] is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are Dei Genitrix or Deipara (approximately "parent (fem.) of God "). Familiar English translations are "Mother of God" or "God-bearer" – but these both have different literal equivalents in ...
Collyridianism (or Kollyridianism) was an alleged Early Christian movement in Arabia whose adherents worshipped the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, as a goddess. [1] [2] The existence of the sect is subject to some dispute by scholars, as the only contemporary sources to describe it is the Panarion of St. Epiphanius of Salamis, published in approximately 376 AD and theorectically in the Qur'an.