by Millie Huseman | Oct 3, 2016 | Events
Colton’s Point, MD — The newly-formed Seventh District Optimist Club wanted to do something to shine the light on the area’s crown jewel. St. Clements Island, the site of the founding of Maryland, had shrunk to one-tenth of the size it was when the Ark and...
by Millie Huseman | Oct 14, 2014 | Events
Ave Maria! Here is a worldwide Marian event that I never hear about even though it has been going on for almost two years and in the US since August. It is a pilgrimage of a replica of the Black Madonna in dedication to the pro-life cause from Vladivostok, Russia on...
by Millie Huseman | Jul 4, 2014 | Events
“A little island with a big history”, Mark Iron Jump to 7:05 for the review of the Shrine by EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network on ‘News Nightly’. God bless you!
by Millie Huseman | Jun 30, 2014 | Events
First published on TheBaynet.com by Marty Madden A small island in the Potomac River that had been the site of the birth of America’s religious freedom served as the venue for observing the diamond jubilee anniversary of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. The Sunday...
by Millie Huseman | Jun 30, 2014 | Events
On Sunday, June 29, Cardinal Wuerl celebrated Mass on St. Clement’s Island where the first Catholic Mass in the English-speaking colonies was celebrated. When the Ark and the Dove landed in Maryland in 1634, the colonists held a ceremony to take possession of...