The Centennial Fountain
...r late.[13] Despite this, the fountain was considered a huge success with one newspaper stating that it was an “expression of the sterling patriotism which has ever characterized the Catholic Church in America.”[14] While the Centennial Fountain was not ready for the centennial and now no longer functions as a
Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...is another list, this one a list of food items requested by military personnel and civilians who were stationed at St. Paul’s Church during the first phase of the Nativist riots in May 1844. After violence had spread from Irish Kensington to the city of Philadelphia itself, authorities and citizens
Newman Centers
...oal of the FCCC was to guide local chapters and to support the creation of new ones.[9] One avenue for this was the publication of periodicals, such as the Newman Quarterly (later Newman News), which ran from 1917 to 1947.[10] In 1938, the FCCC would change its name to the
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...ch and John Hughes, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, who later gained notoriety as bishop of New York. Bishop John Hughes, circa 1861 As a way to present his side of the argument, Hughes started The Catholic Herald, the first long lived diocesan paper in Philadelphia. The newspaper