Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...'s (Downingtown, Pa.) Feb. 1927 monthly parish calendar. The piece praises American actor James K. Hackett for entertaining the troops in WWI. Hackett was ineligible to fight in the war due to a knee injury he sustained while performing in Macbeth (as the title character) on stage. Although Hackett was

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...m the journal kept at the hospital by a Sister of Charity." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society 8, no. 4 (December 1897): 399-449. West, Nathaniel. History of the Satterlee U.S.A. Gen. Hospital at West Philadelphia from October 8, 1862 to October 8, 1863. The Hosptial Press, 1863. (Call#

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Canonization of Saint John Neumann

...cient evidence.[4] Pilgrims to Beatification, Aeronews 32823. In 1957, 170 American bishops signed a letter to Pope Pius XIII requesting an Apostolic Benediction for Neumann.[5] However, in a 1958 letter to Cardinal O’Hara c.s.c., Father Edward Heston, Procurator General of the Congregation of Holy Cross, wrote that a dispensation to

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Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church

...chool, open to both the Catholic and non-Catholic communities, offers both American and Chinese education, with English, Mandarin, and Cantonese being taught. [12] Having recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, Holy Redeemer looks to continue its role as a center for Catholic life in the Chinese community. [1] Holy Redeemer Chinese

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