Marian Year

...ns. Archbishop O’Hara proclaimed that those who went on pilgrimages to the various churches named in honor of Mary on her various feast days would receive an indulgence. Halvey captured one such pilgrimage by students from Immaculata College. The students took buses to sites across the city including the Sisters,

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...ections: [Indicate cited item or 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

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Pope

...onal Guard protecting 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

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