1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut
...e worst month with well over a hundred cases a day reported. A significant number of those cases resulted in death. The worst days in the city were August 6, when there were 176 cases and 71 deaths, and August 7, when there were 136 cases and 73 deaths reported.
Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters
.... [13] “Mayor of City Deeply Grateful to Archbishop and the Sisters,” The Catholic Standard and Times, October 19, 1918. SB-10, April 7, 1917- Feb. 12, 1920 Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [14] “Nun Gives Life for Blockley’s Sick Poor,” The Catholic Standard and Times, October
St. Peter Claver
...1906.[12] Eventually, the parish became the mother church for the growing number of Black Catholic churches in the city. The church would continue to play an important part in the lives of Black Catholics until its closure in 1985.[13] Despite the church’s closure, the spirit of the parish lived on
Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop
...an had initiated, were completed and erected under Prendergast, including Catholic Girls’ High School, West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys, the Archbishop Ryan Memorial Institute for the Deaf, and the Don Bosco Institute in South Philadelphia . Prendergast’s health began to fail only a couple of years after his