Cardinal Dougherty and His Golden Jubilee
...ng parts of the Jubilee celebration was the living chalice created by diocesan high school students wearing coordinated colored robes. The Jubilee Mass was a major success with 60,000 more people attending than originally planned. The event was a reflection of a Golden Age of Catholicism in the city as
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1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut
...e worst month with well over a hundred cases a day reported. A significant number of those cases resulted in death. The worst days in the city were August 6, when there were 176 cases and 71 deaths, and August 7, when there were 136 cases and 73 deaths reported.
Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters
...se on the 26th.[4] Archbishop Dennis Dougherty offered the use of archdiocesan buildings as temporary hospitals and enlisted all priests, non-cloistered nuns, and the members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to aid the victims of the flu.[5] The sisters of numerous religious orders across the city would