Research guide for parish histories
...other information on the practice of the faith within the parish. The financial report includes information such as income from weekly and special collections, total yearly expenditures for parish management, mortgages on church buildings and other financial information. In 1953, the spiritual and financial reports were divided and filed separately.
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...th the advent of permanent army hospitals like Sattelee, staffed by experiences surgeons and dedicated sisters. During its four-year existence, more than 50,000 wounded soldiers were treated at Satterlee. The contributions made by the medical professionals and the Daughters of Charity who staffed the hospital are immeasurable. PAHRC holds a
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate
Black Catholic periodicals
...crease in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd started the weekly black newspaper American Catholic Tribune,