Marytown (other)
Marytown may refer to: * Marytown, Wisconsin, United States; an unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County * Marytown, West Virginia, United States; an unincorporated community in McDowell County * Marytown, Libertyville, Illinois, United States; a Conventual Franciscan Friar Community for Saint Maximilian Kolbe * Máriaváros District (Marytown District), Kecskemét, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary See also * * Marystown (other) Marystown may refer to: Places * Marystown, Burin Peninsula, Island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Marystown, Minnesota, USA, an unincorporated community in Louisville Township, Scott County * Marystown, Texas, USA, an uni ... * Maryton (other) {{geodab ...
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Marytown, Wisconsin
Marytown, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, in the town of Calumet. Marytown is located at the intersection of Fond du Lac County highways G and HH. Wisconsin Highway 149 ran north to south through the community before it was decommissioned in 2006. Holyland Marytown is in an area of eastern Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin known as " The Holyland", so called because of the large number of communities built around churches, including St. Anna, St. Peter, St. Cloud, Mount Calvary, Johnsburg, Calvary, Brothertown and Jericho. A recognizable feature in Marytown is St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, which is located at the peak of the largest hill in the area. The church is lit at night, and can be seen from several miles away. History A post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packa ...
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Marytown, West Virginia
Marytown is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ..., United States. References Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in McDowell County, West Virginia {{McDowellCountyWV-geo-stub ...
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Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Raymund Kolbe; pl, Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 1894–1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications. On 10 October 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of charity. The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, and prisoners. John Paul II declared him "the patron of our difficult century". His feast day is 14 August, the day of his death. Due to Kolbe's efforts to promote consecration and e ...
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Kecskemét
Kecskemét ( , sk, Kečkemét) is a city with county rights central part Hungary. It is the eighth-largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun. Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, from both of them and almost equal distance from the two big rivers of the country, the Danube and the Tisza. It is the northern of two centres of the Hungarian Southern Great Plain (Hungarian: Dél-Alföld) region (comprising the three counties Bács-Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád); the southern centre is Szeged, the seat of Csongrád county. Etymology The name of the city stems from the Hungarian word ''kecske'' meaning "goat" and ''-mét'' meaning "pass". Geography Kecskemét was established at the meeting point of a large sandy region and a sandy yellow soil; its elevation is above sea level. The territory west of the city is covered by wind-blown sand, characterised by the almost parallel northern-southern ...
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Marystown (other)
Marystown may refer to: Places * Marystown, Burin Peninsula, Island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Marystown, Minnesota, USA, an unincorporated community in Louisville Township, Scott County * Marystown, Texas, USA, an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Texas * Marystown, a townland of County Roscommon, Ireland Other uses * Marystown Central High School, Marystown, NL, Canada * Marystown Group, a Neoproterozoic stratigraphic group See also * * Maryton (other) * Marytown (other) * Marysville (other) * Maryville (other) * Ville-Marie (other) * Villa Maria (other) * Town (other) * Mary (other) Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...