Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters

...pidemic had subsided, government officials praised the work of the sisters with the Pennsylvania Department of Heath stating that “without the serviced rendered by these good women many additional lives would have been sacrificed.”[12] The mayor of Philadelphia echoed similar sentiment in a letter declaring that “I have never seen

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...lture was at risk. ← Cartooning Catholics Thomas Nast →...

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...3] Samuel Hood, A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick : with biographical notices of some of the members, and extracts from the minutes, (Philadelphia: The Hibernian Society, 1844), P001.0487 [4] Ibid. [5] List of Members, P001.2003. [6] John H. Campbell, History of the

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Research Request Forms

...py of the record. CHRC has some school records, mainly report cards, for a number of parochial schools: Ascension of Our Lord, St. Catharine of Sienna, St. Donato, St. Frances Cabrini Regional School, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Gertrude, St. Hugh, St. Joan of Arc, St. Madeline Sophie, Mater Dolorosa,

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