Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...is virtually unknown in 2011, but he was certainly a popular actor in his day and still remains an interesting historical figure. There are two related articles within this August 1940 calendar on the topic of children watching movies. Both articles are fascinating as they show that children were a

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St. Peter Claver

...he Germans he served. So, in 1886, Hiltermann reserved one Sunday Mass per week to be for the Black Catholics and at the same time organized them into the St. Peter Claver Union.[3] While Holy Trinity did not have enough priests to maintain the Mass for more than a year,

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Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion

...duced 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 1866, the Plenary Council of Baltimore

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Pope visit

...pent the night down the street at the Cardinal’s residence. While the next day had no event to rival the Mass on the Parkway, it was still a busy day for the pope. First was an early morning visit to pray before the body of St. John Neumann at St.

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