Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia
...cism, Joseph Middletown Bishop Kenrick wrote that May 4, 1847 was a day of great joy for the Diocese of Philadelphia because it was on that day after weeks of traveling across the country from St. Louis, the Sisters of St. Joseph arrived to take control of St. John’s Orphanage.[1]
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...,000. During the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred during July 1863, the greatest number of wounded 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,
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...tter of nomination as “truly pious, learned, religious, remarkable for his great humility, but deficient perhaps, in firmness and without great experience in the direction of affairs.” This description would prove prophetic, as Egan’s episcopate was marred by administrative disputes with lay trustees. Egan was born in 1761 in Limerick,
Black Catholic periodicals
...the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative of