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Founded in 1872, Saint Peter’s Prep is a Catholic, Jesuit college preparatory school for boys in grades 9 through 12. Located in New Jersey, the school serves a diverse community of 914 students from several communities in New Jersey and New York City. The academic, athletic, co-curricular, spiritual and service programs aim to foster in students an understanding of the world and the courage to advance the common good. Students are encouraged to embrace diversity and carry with them a worldview based on respect and inclusion. The school’s 72 faculty members are dedicated to shaping competent, conscious and compassionate young men. Saint Peter’s has distinguished itself as one of the area’s premier academic programs based on its rigorous college preparatory curriculum and its student-centered teaching philosophy.
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Founded in 1872, Saint Peter’s Prep is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school for boys located in historic downtown Jersey City. Saint Peter’s remains New Jersey’s only Jesuit high school and continues the rich tradition of academic, social and spiritual development that has been the hallmark of Jesuit education for over four centuries. The student body currently numbers 916 young men from 109 communities in New Jersey and New York.
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Saint Peter (Jèrriais: St Pièrre) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is in the west central part of the island. It is the only parish with two separate coastlines, stretching from St. Ouen's Bay in the west to St. Aubin's Bay in the south, and thereby cutting St. Brelade off from other parishes. The parish is the fourth-largest parish by surface area, covering 6,469 vergées (11.6 km²)
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Saint Peter is an important figure in Christianity generally and Roman Catholicism specifically. For all Christians, he is regarded as one of Jesus' leading disciples. For Roman Catholics, tradition says that Peter was the first bishop of Rome and therefore ... the first pope, thus in theory establishing an unbroken line between the current Catholic leadership and the disciples personally chosen by Jesus.
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Saint Peter died at the age of 70 and was buried in Argos. Five hundred years later the Venetians and the Franks raided Argos and Greece and took away the Saint's relics. To this day, no one knows where they have been taken. Only a few of his sermons have been discovered but enough to reveal to us the spiritual greatness of the man. Facts of his life come down to us through his pupils, who were the recipients of his love, wisdom, guidance and example. Efforts have been going on for years to recover more of his works and additional facts of his life including the location of his relics. A beautiful church dedicated to Saint Peter today dominates a central square in the historic city of Argos.
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The MAAC consists of 10 member institutions: Canisius, Fairfield, Iona, Loyola (MD), Manhattan, Marist, Niagara, Rider, Saint Peter's and Siena; and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. For more on the conference please visit, http://www.maacsports.com/.
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