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...ets Parish Histories and Calendars Digital Collections Online Catalog Blog Online Exhibits Slide 5 Current Exhibit: Behind Halvey's Lens A Photographic History of Catholic Philadelphia Discover the Exhibit Slide 2 Newspaper Collection CHRC holds one of the largest collections of Catholic newspapers in the United States. View the Collection Slide

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Manuscript Collections

...consulted by visiting the Archives. Staff are currently working to create online finding aids. All of these collections are open to researchers. Some smaller collections, including the Fenian Brotherhood papers and materials relating to the Molly Maguires and the Nativist Riots of 1844, have been digitized as part of the

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Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview

...rpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And I remember going into the church and being there for the whole Mass. Now she had to carry my brother in her arms and my sister just about walking, and I was about 4 years old. 4-1/2, 4 years, and I remember seeing a priest, and

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...on Human Relations. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-1.wav Devlin: George Fencl, (Chief Inspector and head of the Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit), would call me. And one time we were up there and I had to bring in Spanish priests you know. And they were good. They’d come out, you know and we decided

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