Medical Mission Sisters

...5 and the first three to join were Doctor Joanna Lyons, Mary Evelyn Flieger, RN, and Marie Ulbrich, RN.[1] Dengel formed this new order because of her experience working at a hospital in northern India (in what is now Pakistan), providing medical assistance to women and children.[2] Dengal hoped the

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Catholics in WWII

...that there are no atheists in the foxholes. Louis Meyer Photograph, Assasm India, 1844 The other major part of Dougherty’s WWII correspondence deals with chaplains, both from an administrative national level and an individual priest level. A common theme of the correspondence with Bishop John O’Hara of the Military Ordinariate

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8195. [4] Catholic Standard and Times, June, 14, 1919. [5] Catholic Standard and Times, August 2, 1913. [6] Woman's Progress in Literature, Science, Art, Education and Politics, Vol. 1 No. 1, April, 1893, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8127. [7] Woman's Progress in Literature, Science, Art, Education and Politics, Vol 5 No. 1, June 1895,

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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

...rrent Status,” Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 1, https://www.trinitydome.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/BASILICA-BACKGROUNDER-2016.pdf; “CPI Inflation Calculator,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=400.00&year1=191301&year2=201709. [2] Thomas Tweed, America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 45....

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