Marian Year of 1954

...hibition of Vatican stamps, the first time displayed in the United States, opened at the short-lived National Philatelic Museum. By far, the biggest Philadelphia event was the Marian Congress of the Oriental Church held on October 22, 1954. It was a joint celebration between the Exarchate of the Byzantine Rite,

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...Right project they are available to study from around the world. [1] Martin-Campbell-Furlong Family Papers, 1795-1963 (MC 90) Finding aid. [2] Engbers, Susanna Kelly. "A Woman Both "New" and "True": Jane Campbell as Catholic Suffragist." American Catholic Studies 126, no. 2 (2015), 31. [3] Jane Campbell Obituary, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8195. [4] Catholic

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Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

...respondence in the collection). The Cardinal of Reims at the time was Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon, whose church in Reims became a symbol of the victims of German aggression during the war. The German army began dropping bombs on Reims in September 1914 and did not cease until June 1918. Cardinal Luçon

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