41st International Eucharistic Congress

...to 1881, when a one day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by 800 people. The event in Philadelphia would last for a week and be attended by over 1,500,000 people including 44 Cardinals and 417 bishops from around the world. [1] Production of Foolsgold. Halvey A443.011 Planning

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...marily from the 19th century, including an almost complete run of official Philadelphia Diocesan newspapers up to the current Archdiocesan paper, The Catholic Standard and Times. We do not hold indexes for historical or genealogical purposes. Researchers will need to provide an exact or near exact date for staff to

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About CHRC

...ollection includes records that document the history of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as well as the collections of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, the oldest Catholic historical society in the country. Mission Statement The purpose of the Catholic Historical Research Center (CHRC) is to collect, preserve, and make

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Medical Mission Sisters

.... [8] Francis P. Goodall, "The Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries of Philadelphia: Twenty-five Years of Pioneering." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 61, no. 4 (1950): 242-244. [9] Ibid., 246. [10] Reher, "Denis J. Dougherty and Anna M. Dengel," 28. [11] Baldwin, “At Motherhouse in Fox

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