Recap of “To Touch a Saint: Creating a Place for Middle School Students” Grant Program!
...rmer Our Lady of Ransom School, had 572 seventh and eighth grade students visit. This number does not include the teachers, principals, or priests that accompanied them. During their visit, they had an interactive and hands on learning experience, toured the facility, met our Archivists, viewed current exhibits, and saw
The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell
The name of Mother Katharine Drexel is familiar to many Catholics both within and outside the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. However, her sister, Louise Drexel Morrell is little remembered. Only the Morrell Park section of Northeast Philadelphia, which occupies the former site of her family estate “San Jose”, as well as
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...h’s Weekly was published on August 23, 1884. This 1883 issue included Part II of Verne's "The American Robinson Crusoe" PAHRC has the most complete run of Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly. The paper has also been digitized as part the Digital Library @ Villanova University. To view the digitized issues
Drexel Beatification
...ive one with little guarantee of success. However, in 1983, Pope John Paul II streamlined the entire process, eliminating the Promotor of the Faith (Devil’s Advocate) and reducing the number of miracles required for canonization from three to two. The first step in the process was to examine all of