Psylocke Resurrection
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One year after her death, Betsy awoke where she had died, unaware of how she had survived, and was soon reunited with the X-Men, helping them against the Saurian Hauk'ka, and Mojo and Spiral. Jamie started to covertly observe his resurrected sister, allowing her to catch occasional glimpses of him. Betsy was reunited with Brian during the Scarlet Witch's "House of M" reality storm. When the timeline was set right, the memories of their encounter took on a dreamlike state, prompting Betsy and several of the X-Men to visit London to check on Brian's status. Back in the USA, Betsy and the X-Men failed to stop Shi'ar Death Commandos from slaughtering the Grey family, targeted for death because of their relationship to Phoenix, but helped defeat them before they could kill Rachel Grey. With the First Fallen's servants, the Foursaken, about to make their move, Jamie revealed his part in Betsy's resurrection to the X-Men: sensing the approaching threat of the cosmically powerful First Fallen (a harbinger of frozen, eternal "perfection") and learning of Betsy's demise, an annoyed Jamie resurrected her, reaching back through time to stop her spirit passing into the afterlife. Intending her to be a weapon to use against the First Fallen, Jamie tightened up the "quantum strings" of Betsy's body, rendering her mostly immune to external manipulation, enhancing her telekinetic powers, and leaving her invisible to the First Fallen's senses. Jamie was abducted by the Foursaken before he could fully inform them of the imminent threat; trying to rescue him, the X-Men were easily captured, except Betsy, who found herself invisible to the Foursaken's senses. Disrupting their attempt to give the First Fallen full access to Earth, Betsy and the X-Men were pulled into his realm, the Singing City, where Betsy's immunity to his mental control allowed her to free the City's residents, including the Foursaken, from his dominance. As a wrathful First Fallen turned on them, Jamie sent the X-Men home while he held the entity back, apparently sacrificing himself. Returning to the UK to tell Brian of Jamie's fate, Betsy learned that Shadow Xavier, leader of the Shadow X-Men, had taken over the minds of his jailors in Crossmore Prison, and was demanding to see her. Accompanied by Excalibur, Betsy visited the prison, where Xavier revealed his true identity as the Shadow King, and tried to take revenge, having Excalibur attack Brian so that Betsy could witness his death; however, immune to his control, Betsy telekinetically induced a stroke in Xavier's body, freeing Excalibur. Before she could finish him off, Psylocke was interdimensionally teleported to the Crystal Palace at the Nexus of All Realities. CANNOTANSWER
One year after her death, Betsy awoke where she had died,
Psylocke is the name of two connected fictional superheroes appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.

The first character to use the Psylocke moniker, Betsy Braddock, was initially a supporting character in the adventures of her twin brother Brian in the original Captain Britain series, adopting the codename upon joining the X-Men. For 29 years of publication history, the character was body-swapped in-story with the assassin Kwannon, who took on the Psylocke codename after Braddock claimed the title of Captain Britain.

Publication history

Betsy Braddock
Created by writer Chris Claremont, Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8 (Dec. 1976), with Captain Britain #10 (Dec. 1976) as her first cover appearance, published by the Marvel Comics' British imprint Marvel UK. In New Mutants Annual #2 (1986), Claremont integrated Betsy Braddock into the X-Men franchise. After being rescued by the New Mutants and taking up residence at their mutant-training academy, Braddock is formally invited to join the X-Men and officially adopts the codename Psylocke, becoming an enduring fixture of the team over the next three decades. 

In a 1989 story,  an amnesiac Betsy is kidnapped by The Hand, who brainwash her and physically alter her to take on an East Asian appearance.  Under the name Lady Mandarin she briefly becomes the Hand’s supreme assassin. While her memories return, she retains her new appearance and skills, including the ability to manifest the focused totality of her telepathic power in the form of a “psychic knife.” A 1993 story by Fabian Nicieza  would retroactively establish that Braddock’s changed appearance was the product of a body swap between Braddock and the assassin Kwannon. 

In the Claremont-written X-Treme X-Men #2 (2001), the character dies, her comic book death lasting until 2005's Uncanny X-Men #455. During the Hunt for Wolverine storyline, the psychic vampire Sapphire Styx absorbs the entirety of Braddock’s soul, leaving her body dead. After destroying Sapphire Styx from the inside with assistance from a fragment of Wolverine’s soul, Braddock reconstitutes her original body with the villain’s remaining soul power.

During the Dawn of X, Braddock subsequently took up her brother Brian’s former title of Captain Britain, forming a new iteration of Excalibur with Apocalypse, Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, and Rictor, to protect the Kingdom of Avalon.

Kwannon
In Kwannon’s first appearance, using the codename Revanche, she traveled to the United States to confront Braddock, believing herself to be the real Betsy Braddock due to amnesia caused by the body swap. She discovered that she was formerly The Hand’s prime assassin before incurring brain damage and falling comatose as a result a battle with her lover Matsu’o Tsurayaba, a high-ranking member of the Hand. In hopes that, due to Kwannon’s low-level psychic abilities, the powers of the high-level telepath Betsy Braddock would be able to save her life, Tsurayaba sought the help of the sorceress Spiral, who instead transferred the women’s minds into each other’s bodies rather than simply recovering Kwannon.

After accepting that she is not the original Betsy Braddock, Kwannon becomes a member of the X-Men, shortly thereafter contracting the Legacy Virus.  As the disease progressed, Kwannon’s psychic abilities increased, allowing her to clarify her own distorted memory. Choosing to die on her own terms, Kwannon confronts Tsurayaba, who complies with her request to kill her rather than waiting to succumb to the disease.

Following the Hunt for Wolverine, when Braddock was restored to her original body, Kwannon was reborn in her original body as well.  Claiming the codename Psylocke for herself, Kwannon became a citizen of the mutant nation of Krakoa.  After the apparent murder of her long-lost daughter by a threatening artificial intelligence called Apoth, Psylocke assembled a new team of Fallen Angels with X-23 and Cable. After finding out that Apoth was using children to disseminate a technological drug called Overclock, Mister Sinister modified  Overclock to allow Psylocke to interact with Apoth in a cyberspace, killing Apoth, whose remains she delivered to Mister Sinister in exchange for his assistance in keeping this extrajudicial mission a secret from the Krakoan Quiet Council.

Following the Apoth incident, Psylocke was assigned to monitor Mister Sinister’s new team of Hellions, composed of mutants considered too violent or troubled to assimilate into Krakoan society.

In other media

Psylocke have been featured in media other than comic books. On several occasions, the character has appeared simply as Psylocke, without specification as to the character’s identity as Braddock or Kwannon.

References

Marvel Comics female superheroes
The Venerable Raymond Lockwood Ravenscroft (15 September 1931 - 18 May 2020) was an Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1988 to 1996.

Ravenscroft was educated at Sea Point Boys' High School, the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. He was ordained deacon in 1955 and priest in 1956. After curacies at St Alban, Goodwood, Cape Town in South Africa (1955-57) and St John's Cathedral, Bulawayo in what was then Southern Rhodesia (1957-59) he was Rector of Francistown in what was then Bechuanaland (1959-62). He then returned to England and served at St Ives, Cornwall (1962-64); All Saints' Church, Falmouth, Cornwall (1964-68), Launceston, Cornwall (1968-74) and Grampound (1974-88).

He married Ann Stockwell; she predeceased him, in 2008. He died in 2020, aged 88.

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Alumni of Sea Point High School
Alumni of the College of the Resurrection Resurrection Elementary School, often simply called Ressi, was a Roman Catholic parochial elementary and middle school associated with Resurrection Parish in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school opened in 1912 and served grades one to eight until its closure in 1996, when it merged with two other schools to form Brookline Regional Catholic School, now known as St. John Bosco Academy.

History 

In 1909, less than a year after Resurrection Parish was established, construction of a new building to house a sanctuary began. In 1912, a third-floor addition was added to hold the sanctuary, and the first and second floors were converted to classrooms and a gymnasium to house the new Resurrection Elementary School. The first students entered the school on September 9, 1912, with six Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill as teachers. In the summer of 1912, another addition was added to accommodate the rapidly growing number of students.

In 1928, just 16 years after opening, the school had 800 students and a third addition. From the time of the school's opening, Ressi was the main feeder school of Resurrection High School, also of Resurrection parish, until the high school's closure in 1935. In 1938, a new, separate church building was erected, and the Resurrection Elementary was able to expand into what was formerly church quarters. By 1953, more than 1,300 students attended the school, and additional space was needed. Kindergarten and first grade moved into four classrooms in the converted church basement, and the gym was also divided into classrooms. In 1957, a new middle school annex with six classrooms was built, along with a new convent for the growing number of Sisters. Peak enrollment was in 1962, at about 2,000.

In 1963, the school shrank slightly due to the opening of Our Lady of Loreto School nearby. However, the school still needed space, and in 1965 the Activities Center opened, containing a gymnasium, six new classrooms, library, and rooms for use by the parish.

During the 1970s and 80s, the school enrollment continued to drop. By 1996, there were only 600 students left, down 71% from a peak of 2,000 in 1962. In 1996, the school merged with Our Lady of Loreto School and St. Pius X School to create Brookline Regional Catholic School, now known as St. John Bosco Academy.

List of principals

Notable alumni 
 Anne Feeney, political activist, musician, and singer-songwriter
 Bernard Hebda, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey

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Schools in Pittsburgh
Defunct schools in Pennsylvania
1996 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
1912 establishments in Pennsylvania