We are pleased to advise you that the 2015 English language edition of the HP’s Visita Iglesia is now available on the main website as well as on slideshare. We will be following up in about 2 weeks with our … Continue reading
Category Archives: Old, Historic World Churches
The first Orthodox Chapel to be built was built by group of fisheries workers who had settled in Umnak on what is now Unalaska Island in the late 1760’s. The original church is shown in the Alaska State Library’s Heritage Collection … Continue reading
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The late Bishop of Krishnagar the Most Reverend Louis Laravoire Morrow, SDB, wrote many books on the Catholic Faith and two of them were: My Bible History: Old Testament and My Bible History” New Testament. We have just added those … Continue reading
Juneau Alaska, was to be one of our first stops out of Vancouver with visits to Tracy Arm Fjord and the Sawyer Glacier “on the road” to Juneau. Juneau is the State Capital of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska … Continue reading
Alaska, that’s right! We’re on the Road Again this time we’re headed ‘North to Alaska’. We recently had the opportunity to go to Alaska on a seven day cruise from Vancouver, BC with the Holland America Line. If you were … Continue reading
In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux). The first mass was held on June 29, 1857, day of the feast … Continue reading
To accompany our main story on Columbus and the Basilica Primada de América we have added two YouTube presentations prepared by Robin Chew. They are: 1. The Basilica of Sta Maria which can be viewed by clicking this photo: 2. … Continue reading
Columbus believes that he has found mathematical proof of this in an apocryphal text of the Old Testament where the prophet Esdras states that the earth is six parts land to one part sea. This is contrary to the current beliefs The 15th … Continue reading
When New France was founded in the early 1600s, besides making the settlement venture pay dividends to the French King. The principal task was for people such as the future Canadian Saints to convert the aboriginal population to Christianity as … Continue reading
Whitney Memorial Church is the earliest Protestant church built in the colony, and the first church in the Diocese of Ottawa but it was built by Lutherans. It was eventually transferred to the Anglicans… Lutheran pastors serving … Continue reading