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Marymount Primary School
Marymount Primary School () is a Catholic primary school currently located on Tai Hang Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The secondary school arm is Marymount Secondary School. Address: 336 Tai Hang Road, Happy Valley, HK. Map Tel: 2572 8728 Fax: 2572 4131 History The school, originally known as Holy Spirit School, was founded by the Maryknoll Sisters, an American religious order, on 10January 1927 in Hong Kong. Back then, the school was on Robinson Road in Central Mid-levels. There were only eight classes of students sharing four small classrooms. In the 1930s, the school moved to a slightly larger building in Caine Road. There were seven classrooms, but conditions were still cramped by today’s standards. By 1941, the school was offering a complete course leading to matriculation, and so was one of only a small handful of schools at that time which prepared girls for university. In 1941, Japanese forces invaded and occupied Hong Kong. The school was closed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tai Hang Road
Tai Hang Road () is a major road on the north side of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. Starting low from Tai Hang at Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay, it winds up to So Kon Po and further up to the mid-levels of Jardine's Lookout and Mount Nicholson, passing through Wong Nai Chung Gap. This is a road along which there are a number of luxurious residential apartments, such as Illumination Terrace, Grand Deco Tower and YI, where many affluent upper-middle/ upper-class families call home. The road meets Lai Tak Tsuen and Tiger Balm Garden (Hong Kong), Haw Par Mansion in Tai Hang. See also {{Commons category, Tai Hang Road * List of streets and roads in Hong Kong * Illumination Terrace Tai Hang Jardine's Lookout Wong Nai Chung Gap Causeway Bay Roads on Hong Kong Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columban Sisters
Columbanus ( ga, Columbán; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. Columbanus taught an Irish monastic rule and penitential practices for those repenting of sins, which emphasised private confession to a priest, followed by penances levied by the priest in reparation for the sins. Columbanus is one of the earliest identifiable Hiberno-Latin writers. Sources Most of what we know about Columbanus is based on Columbanus' own works (as far as they have been preserved) and Jonas of Susa's ''Vita Columbani'' (''Life of Columbanus''), which was written between 639 and 641. Jonas entered Bobbio after Columbanus' death but relied on reports of monks who still knew Columbanus. A description of miracles of Columbanus written by an anonymous monk of Bobbio is of much later date.O'Hara, Alexander, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
