Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion
...uthwark, named after the saint who introduced the devotion three hundred years earlier. Earlier fears of the three-day devotion were extinguished after no public disturbances occurred. The Catholic Herald listed other churches in the Diocese where Forty Hours would be held. Not long after, other dioceses adopted it and in
The Story of Duffy’s Cut
...n finding jobs in and around Philadelphia. Philadelphia and Columbia horsecar near Duffy's Cut, 1832. From Watkin's History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1896 The men and women who worked at Duffy’s Cut arrived from Londonderry in the summer of 1832 on the barque John Stamp. The majority were from
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...series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the Catholic Historical Research Center of
Pope
...an Irish Protestant parade. In response, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. This cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their Catholic religion, believing