Research guide for parish histories
...other information on the practice of the faith within the parish. The financial report includes information such as income from weekly and special collections, total yearly expenditures for parish management, mortgages on church buildings and other financial information. In 1953, the spiritual and financial reports were divided and filed separately.
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...th the advent of permanent army hospitals like Sattelee, staffed by experiences surgeons and dedicated sisters. During its four-year existence, more than 50,000 wounded soldiers were treated at Satterlee. The contributions made by the medical professionals and the Daughters of Charity who staffed the hospital are immeasurable. PAHRC holds a
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ulata College, and local events such as St. Patrick’s Day parades. Halvey once said, “I think many of my pictures will last long after I’m gone,” and PAHRC intends to digitize the negatives to fulfill this prediction. Luciano Pavarotti and the late Cardinal Bevilacqua, 1989 The collection currently consists
Black Catholic periodicals
...crease in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd started the weekly black newspaper American Catholic Tribune,