Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics
...s week on July 26th, the Games of the 33rd Olympiad will be held in Paris, France. A hundred years ago, the city also hosted the Games of the 8th Olympiad. The Catholic Historical Research Center would like to take the opportunity to highlight some Catholics living in the Archdiocese
Lawrence E. McCrossin papers, 1917-1919 (MC 4)
...field secretary for the Knights of Columbus Committee on War Activities in France towards the end of World War I. Prior to this, McCrossin was secretary for the Philadelphia Typographical Union No. 2. The Lawrence E. McCrossin papers date from 1917 to 1919 and contain travel orders, receipts, inventory lists,
Archbishop John Carroll
...s studies for the priesthood.[2] Despite the suppression of the Jesuits in France, Carroll was ordained a priest in 1769 and took his final vows in 1771, two years before the order would be suppressed by the Pope.[3] He would return to American in 1774 and quickly became involved in
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...shortened further to Redpath’s Weekly. This reflected the reduction in the number of illustrations due to rising publication costs. By August 1883, the paper had become more literary and less a vehicle for Irish freedom and social activism with more space devoted to serialized fiction, including French and Russian works