Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...included ham, veal, poultry, eggs, 10 pounds of sugar, and 2,000 stewed and 600 fried oysters. Oh yes, and don't forget the segars. Food ordered by military personnel and citizens guarding St. Paul's Catholic Church, May 1844 Archives Archives Select Month April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October
Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection
...article is noteworthy for its praise of a non-Catholic at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was commonplace. Hackett was able to put religious differences aside to work with Catholics and entertain the troops, which the tone of the article seems to imply did not happen too often back then. Hackett
Collection Development Policy
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Modern Pro-Catholic Comics
...positive and heroic light. An unlikely promoter of Catholicism was Marvel Comics, which published a series of comic books focusing on the lives of influential Catholics. Published in the 1980s, Marvel would team up with Catholic writers in order to produce stories on religious figures. Francis: Brother of the Universe,