History https://dev.stanns.org/ en Catholic Standard: A Washington-area Catholic holiday tradition, St. Ann's Christmas party https://dev.stanns.org/news/2020/12/catholic-standard-washington-area-catholic-holiday-tradition-st-anns-christmas-party <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Catholic Standard: A Washington-area Catholic holiday tradition, St. Ann&#039;s Christmas party</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>mmccormick</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-01-20T09:15:15-05:00" title="Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - 09:15" class="datetime">Wed, 01/20/2021 - 09:15</time> </span> <div class="layout layout--onecol"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="field field--name-field-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-12-21T09:15:00Z" class="datetime">Mon, 12/21/2020 - 04:15</time> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>One of the annual Christmas traditions that has been part of the Archdiocese of Washington for decades is the holiday celebration at St. Ann’s, now St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth and Families in Hyattsville.&nbsp;</p> <p>St. Ann’s was founded in 1860 under the patronage of Father Charles Ignatius White to care for orphaned children and protect indigent pregnant women. Father White – the pastor of the Church of St. Matthew the Apostle (the future cathedral parish of Washington) and editor of the Catholic Mirror, then the Catholic newspaper for the Archdiocese of Baltimore – invited the Daughters of Charity into his parish, encouraged the founding of the orphanage and shepherded the institution through its incorporation process...</p> <p><em><strong>Read more at <a href="https://cathstan.org/posts/a-washington-area-catholic-holiday-tradition-st-anns-christmas-party">The Catholic Standard</a></strong></em></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline clearfix"> <h3 class="field__label inline">Tags</h3> <ul class='links field__items'> <li><a href="/tags/history" hreflang="en">History</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-destination field--type-link field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">External link</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://cathstan.org/posts/a-washington-area-catholic-holiday-tradition-st-anns-christmas-party">Source: The Catholic Standard</a></div> </div> </div> </div> Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:15:15 +0000 mmccormick 259 at https://dev.stanns.org