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Berchmans Academy Of The Sacred Heart
Berchmans may refer to: People: *John Berchmans (Dutch: Jan Berchmans) (13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621), a Jesuit Scholastic and a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. *John Berchmans Conway, a Roman Catholic religious sister working in Pakistan for 60 years. *Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin, (December 24, 1872 – August 30, 1921) was a Canadians, Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Aylmer, Quebec, the son of pioneer Aylmer mayor and merchant Charles Devlin (mayor), Charles Devlin (b. Meera, Coun ..., a Canadian politician. * Fr. John Berchmans Puthuparambil, the First Indian Capuchin Provincial. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Berchmans
John Berchmans ( nl, Jan Berchmans ; 13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621) was a Jesuit scholastic and is a saint in the Catholic Church. In 1615, the Jesuits opened a college at Mechelen and Berchmans was one of the first to enroll. His spiritual model was his fellow Jesuit Aloysius Gonzaga, and he was influenced by the example of the English Jesuit martyrs. Berchmans is the patron saint of altar servers, Jesuit scholastics, and students. Early life John Berchmans was born on 13 March 1599, in the city of Diest situated in what is now the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, the son of a shoemaker. His parents were John Charles and Elizabeth Berchmans. He was the oldest of five children and at baptism was named John in honor of John the Baptist. He grew up in an atmosphere of political turmoil caused by a religious war between the Catholic and Protestant parts of the Low Countries. When he was age nine, his mother was stricken with a very long and a very serious illness. John would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Berchmans Conway
John Berchmans Conway, R.J.M. (born Bernadette Conway 1929 – 21 December 2022), usually known as Sister Berchmans, was an Irish Roman Catholic religious sister and teacher who worked in Pakistan for 60 years. In 2012 she was decorated by the Government of Pakistan for her services in education and promoting interfaith harmony. Early life Conway was born in County Clare, Ireland. In 1951 she joined the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, founded by Claudine Thevenet in France in 1818, dedicated to caring for and educating the young and homeless. Very early, the congregation took on the task of education in other countries. The first Convent of Jesus and Mary in Pakistan was opened by four sisters in Lahore in 1876. She was sent to Pakistan in 1953 at the age of 24. Work in Pakistan Conway spent some 60 years teaching English and mathematics. She taught girls in Jesus and Mary Convents in Lahore, Murree and Karachi. She completed her Diamond Jubilee, or 60th ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin
Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin, (December 24, 1872 – August 30, 1921) was a Canadians, Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Aylmer, Quebec, the son of pioneer Aylmer mayor and merchant Charles Devlin (mayor), Charles Devlin (b. Meera, County Roscommon) and Hellen Roney (b. Stewarton, Scotland), and the last of nine children, Devlin was educated at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal and Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire, England. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree from McGill University and a Master of Arts degree from Laval University in Quebec. Called to the Bar of Quebec, Quebec bar in 1895 and named King's Counsel in 1906; Devlin practised law in Montreal until 1901 when he moved to Hull. There, he became a partner in the law firm of Devlin and Ste. Marie, pleaded many notable cases, both civil and criminal in nature,"''Canadian Men and Women of the Time 1912''" by Henry James Morgan and served as solic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
