Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters

...r 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 December 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of

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St. Peter Claver

...r 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 December 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of

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Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop

...re completed and erected under Prendergast, including Catholic Girls’ High School, West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys, the Archbishop Ryan Memorial Institute for the Deaf, and the Don Bosco Institute in South Philadelphia . Prendergast’s health began to fail only a couple of years after his appointment. He died

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Cardinal Dougherty and His Golden Jubilee

...e he took over to his Jubilee in 1940, Dougherty built 7 new diocesan high schools and 120 parish schools, expanded the Seminary, and encouraged the building of numerous schools and colleges by religious orders.[8] Due to these efforts and the establishing of over 100 new parishes, Catholicism flourished in

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