Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church

...iocese also set up a chapel at the CYO headquarters at 18th and Arch to be used for Sunday worship. After the first year, nine members of the community converted to Catholicism, with 58 joining the following year.[3] Construction of Holy Redeemer With the increase in membership, Msgr. Kavanagh, in

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Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful

...ever was so great that survivors sought protection even from the dead. For sanitary reasons, over 2,600 loads of earth were spread over the surface of Old St. Mary’s Cemetery, raising the burial ground. Katrina, in order to secure a free burial, offered to spread one hundred loads of earth

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Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics

...Olympics in Moscow. Brooks and the team never competed in the Olympics because of President Jimmy Carter's decision to boycott the Moscow Games in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Attending Mass at Saint Ignatius and Our Lady of Lourdes, Kobe Bryant was a star player at Lower

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Mark Antony Frenaye papers, 1807-1868 (MC 16)

...ty assuming control of the administration of churches, even to the point of hiring and firing pastors. Frenaye also managed the Bishop’s Bank, which Bishop Kenrick established in 1848 for working Catholics who did not want to use the private savings institutions. This collection contains mainly correspondence. A copy of

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