Pope visit

...60-degree view of the Mass. The structure itself took 17 days to build and cost the city $150,000. Halvey_346A_001 Halvey_346A_017   Sunday Shrines and Speeches After a short visit to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Pope John Paull II spent the night down the street at the Cardinal’s residence. While the

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Catabloging

.....as an experiment responding to two perceived needs: first, to find a low cost means of maximizing the public availability of our collections; and second, to find a solution that could be shared with colleagues in less technologically-intensive institutions... we recognized that the indexing capacity, web-readiness, and familiarity of blogging

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Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools

...gned and built by the famed Philadelphian architect, Edward Durang, at the cost of $128,000.[3] After four years of construction, on September 6, 1890, a dedication service was held at the newly completed school. In his speech, Archbishop Ryan stressed the importance of the first free Catholic high school in

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Francis B. Gallagher collection of Fenian Brotherhood records, 1862-1870 (MC 14)

...8 with the goal of establishing an independent Ireland. As well as raising money and gathering arms to send back to Ireland, the Fenians also engaged in military activity against the British, leading two failed invasions of Canada. Factionalism within the organization led to the Brotherhood’s decline by the 1880s.

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