Latin Rite
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Catholic
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Latin Rite
Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, are Catholic rites of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the largest particular church '' sui iuris'' of the Catholic Church, that originated in Europe where the Latin language once ...
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...
. It is part of the ''Saint-Pierre consortium'' comprising schools in three other cities ( Le Cateau, Caudry and
). The manor is a regional landmark due to its typical
architecture
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. As of September 2018, it has more than three hundred pupils supervised by a staff of around forty agents.
History
The École Saint-Joseph is the merger of two
Catholic
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religious congregation
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Peter Fourier
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(1565-1640) but their building located 'du Pontceau' street was subsequently taken over to become the 'Hospice de Solesmes'. The nuns then abandoned teaching and a new 'Saint-Joseph school' was officially inaugurated on 3 October 1904 at '18-50 Rue de l'Abbaye ' with civilian teachers in a large building ceded by ArchbishopMarie-Alphonse Sonnois (1893-1913) transferred from the
. The school will remain there until the start of the 1961 academic year, when it relocated to a
manor house
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with typical
architecture
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Kingdom of Sardinia
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and
Archbishop of Milan
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Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood
The Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood are a contemplative and cloistered religious institute of the Catholic Church. They were founded in 1861 by Catherine Aurelia Caouette in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.
History
The ''SÅ“urs Adoratrice ...
. The sisters will manage the school from 1961 to 1980.
* The Sainte-Marie boys school was established in 1892 in a building built for the teaching brothers of the Christian schools that run it. After the
First World War
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, these brothers not having returned to Solesmes, the school building was ceded to the Archdiocese which enlarged it and made it its "minor
seminary
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" which currently constitutes the central building of the Institution Saint-Michel. In return, the Archdiocese handed over to the school a building at '18 rue de l'Abbaye' where it relocated in 1924 with a
civilian
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teaching body.
Philanthropy
Since its inception, the school has organised
charity
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Giving
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* Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sharing
* C ...
fundraisers and humanitarian activities throughout its academic years which include the collect of clothing as well as
school supplies
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guide dog
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s for the
visually-impaired
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or its
Christmas market
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. Every year since 2009, sister Monique, a representative from a children's charity in Cotonou,
visits the school, and pupils donate the proceeds of their
Lent
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charity activities. In 2021, the Saint-Joseph and Saint-Michel students joined the '
Origami
) is the Japanese art of paper folding. In modern usage, the word "origami" is often used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a f ...
foundation creating origamis later assembled by Belgian
designer
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In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...
Charles Kaisin (1972) to create eight trees exhibited at the
KANAL - Centre Pompidou
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Building
The buil ...
Paris
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Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, a
municipal
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
humanitarian emergency service in France and worldwide whose purpose is to provide
medical care
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circus
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