Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish

...te Heart of Mary called to see me with reference to the future school she happened to notice this wretched building. “there’s your school,” she exclaimed. I was dumbfounded. She gathered up her skirts and went over the premises, even going up to the top of the third floor. She

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...y joined forces to calm tensions in the inner city. Msgr. Devlin was later appointed Director of the Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-1.wav Devlin: George Fencl, (Chief Inspector and head of the Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit), would call me. And one time we were up there and I

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Recap of “To Touch a Saint: Creating a Place for Middle School Students” Grant Program!

...dy of Ransom School, had 572 seventh and eighth grade students visit. This number does not include the teachers, principals, or priests that accompanied them. During their visit, they had an interactive and hands on learning experience, toured the facility, met our Archivists, viewed current exhibits, and saw archival collections.

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Drexel Beatification

...67A_010 Halvey_667A_012   Miracles The next step for Beatification was the approval of a miracle. This happened in the beginning of 1988, when the Vatican approved her miraculous healing of Robert Guntherman from 1974. The boy suffered from an ear inflection which left him deaf and without the inner ear

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