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...chools: St. Teresa of Avila, St. Peter Claver, and St. Philip Neri. Please contact CHRC staff for more information. Researchers should contact individual parishes or schools for information. Also, if a school or academy was run by a particular religious order, researchers should contact the order’s archives for information. Back
Carmelite Monastery
...ston Carmel, nuns were called from the City of Brotherly Love to establish new Carmels. Starting in the mid 1920s, five new Carmels were established in Wheeling, Rochester, Louisville, Mobile, and Savannah. It seems that the nuns had been taking to heart the words of James Cardinal Gibbons at the
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...and schoolrooms on the next two. On July 2, the first Mass was said in the new building. Work continued on the classrooms which would be ready for September 1923. When the new building opened, attendance had increased to nearly 400 children and would grow to over 600 by 1932.
St. Peter Claver
...Philadelphia.[9] The shrine itself was modeled off the original church in France and the statues were imported from Italy.[10] In 1903, new electrical lights in the shape of stars were installed and two gold crowns were made to adorn the statues of Jesus and Mary.[11] As St. Peter Claver’s grew,