Mark Antony Frenaye papers, 1807-1868 (MC 16)
no date Mark Antony Frenaye (1783-1873) was a prominent Philadelphia Catholic businessman who served for many years as the financier and treasurer of the Diocese of Philadelphia. Frenaye also was the largest financial contributor of St. John the Evangelist Church (1830), which Bishop Francis P. Kenrick erected as a way
Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection
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A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
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Mathew Carey
...n and start a paper called the Volunteer’s Journal, which was radically pro-Irish and anti-English. In 1784, after writing an article attacking Parliament, Carey had to flee to America disguised as a woman to avoid arrest.[4] AC 2000.034 Once in Philadelphia in the late Fall of 1784, Carey started a