Research guide for parish histories
...so contain copies of articles concerning the parishes, especially if they closed. Parish files after 1930 are closed to researchers except by special permission from the Chancery. Visual materials CHRC has numerous images of churches, religious persons, events and places relating to the history of the Archdiocese. Although not
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...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 of milk. During the war,