Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful

...ar hero General George Meade. Katrina, Philadelphia servant. Katrina? What does a servant girl have in common with these decorated war heroes and well-known patriots? They share a final resting place in Old St. Mary’s Cemetery where the famous and the ordinary lie side by side. Old St. Mary's Churchyard,

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National Council of Catholic Women

...0.7258, National Council pf Cahtolic Women: What it is, Why it is, What it does [4] MC78_80.7527, Letter to Gertrude Gavin from Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, 10/30/1922 [5] Souvenir of the Tenth Annual Convention, P008.900 [6] 80.7258, Goals for Action, 1948-1950, Resolutions adopted by the Twenty-Fourth National Convention of the National

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Parish Mapping Project

...ooks at the current five counties that make up current the archdiocese. It does not include areas that were once part of the archdiocese but are now part of another diocese. From the 1971 date it was decided to go back fifty years from that to 1921 and then another

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...5/23/1941, MC78_80.5542. [8] Edward Lodge Curran, “Franco: Who is he? What does he fight for?,” (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1937), 8 & 12. AC1990.116 F3. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023

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