Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia

...s.[11] One of their most famous times in the medical field was during the Spanish Flu pandemic. During the outbreak in November 1918, the sisters served in five emergency makeshift hospitals and five regular hospitals, as well as going house to house to care for the sick.[12] Aerial view of

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...to have to condemn the Mollies at their national convention in order to separate themselves from the murders.[20] Come the 1880s, both secret societies had lost much if not all of their influence and support, partly from the opposition from the Church but mostly from the groups’ failures in fulfilling

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