Herbert Alfred Henry Vaughan, MHM was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He was the founder in 1866 of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, known best as the Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society and St. Bede's College, Manchester. As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral.
Josephite marriage, also known as spiritual marriage, chaste marriage, and continent marriage, is a religiously motivated practice in which a man and a woman marry and live together without engaging in sexual activity.
The Josephites, officially known as the Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, are a religious society of Catholic priests and brothers headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. They work specifically among African Americans.
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Julian Tenison-Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor.
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, often called the "Josephites" or "Brown Joeys", were founded in Penola, South Australia, in 1866 by Mary MacKillop and the Rev. Julian Tenison Woods. Members of the congregation use the postnominal initials RSJ.
St George's Weybridge is an independent mixed Roman Catholic co-educational Josephite day school in Surrey, taking pupils from 3 to 18. St George's Weybridge is made up of St George's Junior School (3–11) and St George's College (11–18).
St. Joseph Higher Secondary School is a Catholic higher secondary school in 97 Asad Avenue Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a mono-ed (boys') school offering education from third grade to twelfth grade, averaging 8–18 years of age. The school is a single shift school with over 2500 students.
Josephites may refer to one of the following:
The Institute of the Josephites of Belgium, commonly called Josephites is a Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men devoted to the Christian education of the youth It was founded in Ghent Belgium by Canon van Crombrugghe, in 1817. Its members add the nominal letters C.J. after their names to indicate membership in the Institute.
Charles Randolph Uncles, SSJ, was an African-American Catholic priest. In 1891, he became the first such priest ordained on US soil. Two years later, he co-founded the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, formed to minister to the African American community. As such, he was the first and only African-American to establish a society or order of priests.
Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Mobile, Alabama administered by the Josephites. The Knights of Peter Claver, the largest and oldest Black Catholic organization in the United States, was founded by congregants and priests from the parish in 1909. Its clergy and congregation later took an active role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Josephite Community Aid was a charity organisation based in Sydney, Australia, which, through the work of young volunteers, provides assistance to newly arrived refugee migrants, people facing poverty, mental disability, underprivilege and other special needs. JCA was founded in 1986 and relied on donations and the work of volunteers.
The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Nazareth, also called simply the Sisters of St Joseph or Josephites, are a religious congregation who have their main centre in Whanganui, New Zealand. The congregation was a member of the Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph which disbanded in 2013. The Sisters of St Joseph Whanganui received the Decree of Fusion with the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart on 22 February 2013.
Historic St. Francis Xavier Church is a Black Catholic parish in Baltimore, Maryland. It's said to be the first exclusively Black parish in America, having been established in 1863.
The Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM), officially known as the Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill, is a Catholic society of apostolic life founded in 1866 by Herbert Alfred Vaughan, MHM.
Josephite Sister Maria Sullivan did mission work in Maria Comboni Mission, Mapuordit, southern Sudan and founded the Josephite Community Aid in 1986.
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is a Black Catholic church in the Old Town Historic District of Alexandria, Virginia. It was founded in 1916 with assistance from Katherine Drexel and the Josephites, as a mission church for African Americans.
Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church.
The Black Catholic Movement was a movement of African-American Catholics in the United States that developed and shaped modern Black Catholicism.
Black Catholic Messenger is a nonprofit media publication covering stories of interest to African-American Catholics.
