Marian Year

...Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. Halvey_K409_001 Halvey_K409_002   East and West: a unity of Faith The biggest Philadelphia event was the Marian Congress of the Oriental Church held on October 22, 1954. The congress was a joint celebration between the Exarchate of the Byzantine Rite, the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of

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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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