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Corpus Christi was founded in 1839 by Colonel Henry Lawrence Kinney as Kinney's Trading Post, or Kinney's Ranch, a small trading post to sell supplies to a Mexican revolutionary army camped about 25 miles west, just three years after Texas declared independence from Mexico. The post was located in the disputed territory south of the Nueces River.
June 18. Corpus Christi is a moveable feast, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, [10] 60 days after Easter, or, in countries where it is not a holy day of obligation, on the following Sunday. [52] The earliest possible Thursday celebration falls on May 21 (as in 1818 and 2285), the latest on June 24 (as in 1943 and 2038).
File:Group of men, Corpus Christi procession, Cahir, Co. Tipperary (21890973583).jpg. ... fashion and norms of Corpus Christi processions of the period! ...
USS Lexington-- The-Blue-Ghost' -- Corpus Christi Bay On 26 November 1991, the US Navy turned the Lexington over to the City of Corpus Christi. On 15 June 1992, the ship was donated as a museum and now operates as the "USS Lexington Museum on the Bay" at 2914 North Shoreline Boulevard, Corpus Christi, Texas.
History. There has been a newspaper in Corpus Christi for almost as long as there has been a town. In 1883, the Caller was started in a frame building at 310 North Chaparral, now the site of Green's Jewelers. Roy Miller was editor of the Caller 1907–1911, when it was an enterprise of the King Ranch; he sold his interest in it in 1929.
Corpus Christi Church, Nundah. / 27.404°S 153.0575°E / -27.404; 153.0575. Corpus Christi Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church at 65 Bage Street, Nundah, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Hennessey, Hennessey, Keesing and Co and built from 1925 to 1926 by Stanley Samuel Carrick.
Corpus Christi Carol. The Corpus Christi Carol or Falcon Carol [1] is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol ), first written down by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill between 1504 and 1536. [2] The original writer of the carol remains anonymous. The earliest surviving record of the piece preserves only the lyrics and is untitled.
269,900 acre⋅ft (0.3329 km 3) Surface elevation. 94 ft (29 m) Lake Corpus Christi is a reservoir in coastal southern Texas. The lake was created by impoundment of the Nueces River by the Wesley E. Seale Dam opened in 1958. [1] The lake and the dam that creates it are managed by the City of Corpus Christi. Lake Corpus Christi was originally ...