Digital Collections
...orical Research Center's oral history program, which focuses on the life histories of retired Diocesan priests, serves to fill gaps in the historical record. Excerpts can be found here. A Map of the United States of America Showing a Part of the Role Played by Catholics in its Discovery, Exploration,
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...red in Philadelphia during the 1830s. One of the most well-known were the exchanges between John Breckinridge, secretary and general agent of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church and John Hughes, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, who later gained notoriety as bishop of New York. Bishop
Robert M. O’Reilly papers, 1862-1925 (MC 34)
...0 Robert Maitland O’Reilly (1845-1912) was the 20th Surgeon General of the United States Army serving from September 7, 1902 to January 14, 1909. O’Reilly served a long military medical career beginning as a medical cadet in August 1862 during the Civil War. Other notable appointments include physician at the
John Gilmary Shea Correspondence, 1836-1891 (MC 51)
...the larger files of correspondence are from Oscar W. Collet, Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan, John Ward Dean, Edmond Mallet, J.W. Powell, and Eugene Vetromile. There is only one folder of approximately twelve outgoing correspondences and another folder of unidentified received correspondence. 3 Linear feet ; 7 boxes View Finding Aid