Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...ed were admitted to the hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts

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1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut

...ust 16, 1832 References: McGowan, Francis X., ed. Historical Sketch of St. Augustine's Church, Phila., Pa. Philadelphia: The Augustinian Fathers, 1896. Prendergast, Edmond, ed. Diary and Visitation Record of the Rt. Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick, 1830-1851. Lancaster, Pa: Wickersham Printing Co., 1916. Watson, William. "The Sisters of Charity, the 1832

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41st International Eucharistic Congress

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