Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...iners' Journal Book and Job Rooms, 1878), P001.1567 [9] P001.1567 [10] The great Mollie Maguire trials in Carbon and Schuylkill counties, Pa. : brief reference to such trials and arguments of Gen. Charles Albright and Hon. F.W. Hughes, in the case of the Commonwealth vs. James Carroll, James Roarity, Hugh

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The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience

...862, White writes: we had a terrible battle in which Sargent Neal Gillen a great friend of Jimmy Hughes had his leg nearly torn off from a solid shot and i am almost certain he is dead his brother our captain stayed with him and was taken prisoner our brigade

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“An Appeal to Truth”

...of justice, to-day so shaken, the union in love of all the children of the great Catholic family?” (12) Unfortunately, I have been unable to ascertain if the German bishops agreed to a tribunal or even responded to this public letter. However, while looking for other materials in PAHRC’s pamphlet

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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

...holic Church in America. Indeed, Shahan stated that “every nation has some great National Monument in honor of our Blessed Mother,” revealing his belief that the United States needed to join the rest of Christendom in honoring Mary.[2] Early plans for the shrine were more in line with a 14th

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