Marian Year of 1954

...cil (the Second Vatican Council), which has been for our century a kind of new Pentecost." Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...he church lithograph collection contains images of churches from Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. More information on the

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Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication

...  New Shrine Built The chapel became a popular pilgrimage site for Polish Americans and soon plans were made for a new larger shrine. Atop of Beacon Hill in Doylestown, ground would be broken on August, 23, 1964. The shrine would be completed in time for the Polish Millennium in

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Digital Collections

...ibrary@Villanova has digitized books, papers, and periodicals owned by the American Catholic Historical Society, the majority of which relate to Irish American history. ACHS material can be found here and CHRC Historic Papers can be found here. The Catholic Historical Research Center's oral history program, which focuses on the life

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