Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia

...focusing the sisters to sleep on straw from the stables for the first few days.[6] Soon Bishops Nuemann and Wood visited and helped get the new motherhouse organized. It would be the Coadjutor Bishop Wood that gave the area its name of Mount St. Joseph since the house lay on

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Vistarama

...67 Halvey_L706_068 Halvey_L706_064   Exhibits Over the course of the seven days, the exhibit space averaged 50,000 attendees per day. In total 500,000 visitors, including 150,000 school children, passed through the Hall to learn about the missionary history of the Church from the first pope, Peter, to the then current

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Liturgical Week

...ts Peter and Paul on November 29, 1964, the first day such a vernacular Mass was allowed by the Vatican. In addition, Krol wanted the parishes to roll out these changes as quickly as possible and issued a number of manuals and directions to guide pastors and congregations in implementing

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Citation Information

...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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