Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful
...Mary’s Cemetery, raising the burial ground. Katrina, in order to secure a free burial, offered to spread one hundred loads of earth by hand. She died several years later after sustaining crippling injuries in a fire. True to her wishes, Katrina was buried in Old St. Mary’s Cemetery beneath the
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...hat of their readiness to help us to independence and with it to religious freedom—may we not come to the aid of the French Bishops in this matter of the seminaries, and to revive the flagging hopes of the venerable Cardinal of Reims? I could not help but notice that
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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...e results, we can reasonably estimate that the collection has approximately 350,000 negatives. Our next step is to begin cataloging the images using Past Perfect. Stay tuned for more blog posts about this project! Sources: Baldwin, Lou. "Today's Picture - Tomorrow's History." The Catholic Standard and Times [Philadelphia] 5 Feb.