Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
...ley Powell. Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Letter written by John Wesley Powell, Geologist for the U.S. Department of the Interior, on October 27, 1876 requesting Shea's scholarly assistance. Another large correspondence file comes from
CORDUM
...unity were conducted in five geographical areas of the city (North, South, West, Germantown and Southwest). Forty parishes were observed in this study. The findings were published in the Spring of 1975 containing six chapters: Worship, Evangelization, Education, Structure and Personnel, Witness and Service, and Finance. Areas that were looked
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...lasses, home visitations, and educational instruction. The SBS presence in West Philadelphia dates to 1913 with catechetical classes in local homes and as classes grew to in St. Ignatius parish. In 1924, Cardinal Dougherty ordered a new parish, called Holy Savior, be made for the Black Catholics in the area.