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The St. Joseph River (known locally as the St. Joe) is a 210-mile-long (340 km) river that flows in a generally westerly direction through southern Michigan and northern Indiana, United States, before emptying into Lake Michigan.
Saint Joseph High School (commonly referred to as St. Joe) is a Roman Catholic college preparatory high school located in South Bend, Indiana.Formerly located adjacent to the campuses of the University of Notre Dame, St. Mary's College, and Holy Cross College, in 2012, the school moved to a new location about a mile south of Notre Dame.
The community sits atop St. Joseph Ridge at an elevation of 1,300 feet (400 m), or 400 feet (120 m) above the surrounding valleys. To the north, St. Joseph Coulee leads to Bostwick Creek, a west-flowing tributary of the La Crosse River, which joins the Mississippi at La Crosse. To the south, tributaries run to Mormon Creek, which flows west ...
Solemnly inaugurated on 19 March 2013, Francis’ pontificate is placed under the protection of Saint Joseph. One of the few things the Pope had sent over from Argentina after his election is a statue he had. It depicts the saint lying down asleep, a reference to the gospel accounts of Saint Joseph receiving the counsel of angels in several dreams.
U.S. Representative Fred Upton, who is a St. Joseph native, released a statement saying, "What occurred today in my hometown breaks my heart. My thoughts are with our entire community — our friends and neighbors. One thing is clear: we must do better to prevent these types of tragedies from occurring." [22] [23]
Saint Joseph's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Joseph or the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, is in Western Christianity the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ, celebrated on 19 March. It has the rank of a solemnity in the Catholic Church.
The college students began taking classes at nearby Aquinas College, and Saint Joseph became a high school-only institution. By 1968, student enrollment was below 100. In the 1970s, the high school students began taking their classes at the nearby Catholic Central High School, and much of Saint Joseph was converted to office space.
The bridge is not the first bridge to span this section of the St. Joseph River. In 1887 a swollen St. Joseph River swept away a bridge that was about two blocks from the current bridge location. [3] The current bridge was constructed in 1887 by nearby Parkville builder Pierce Bodmer. [4]