Misericordia Hospital

...t also broke down the types of diseases treated, with enlarged tonsils the most common with 609 and appendicitis the second most with 171 cases. Some interesting less common cases were one case of arsenic poisoning and 10 gunshot wounds.[11] First Report of the Misericordia Hospital, 60 First Report of

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Liturgical Week

...e Mass of the future would look. The 1963 Liturgical Week proved to be the most successful up to that time with over 20,000 people attending the Masses and sessions, breaking the previous year’s record of 5,000 people. Halvey_P868_007 Halvey_P868_004 Halvey_P857_040 Halvey_P857_056 Halvey_P857_051   Exhibits and Displays In addition to

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St. Peter Claver

...needed, which was dedicated in 1906.[12] Eventually, the parish became the mother church for the growing number of Black Catholic churches in the city. The church would continue to play an important part in the lives of Black Catholics until its closure in 1985.[13] Despite the church’s closure, the spirit

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...pal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland, led many to believe that America’s Protestant culture was at

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