Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia
...o was Bishop of St. Louis. After pleading with the Mother Superior to come east, the order agreed to send four sisters led by Mother St. John Fournier.[2] The Sisters of St. Joseph had come to St. Louis from France in 1836 to teach at a school for the deaf
Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection
...llection. This article entitled "Faith of an Actress" is from St. Cyril's (East Lansdowne, Pa.) Parish Monthly Calendar dating from July of 1939. The article is about a Catholic actress named Elinor Flynn who was in movies during the late 1920s and 1930s. Although the article says Flynn appeared in
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...here and there in Belgium, France, Central countries, Ireland, and the far East, it would cause odious distinctions and open the gate to a thousand furhter [sic] demands that we are unable to answer.” Letter from Heuser. Postscript reads: "P.S. the MS is being returned by this post under other
The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
...t out as quick as we could the rebels were behind us we had to get out the best way we could our company lost from eight to ten killed and wounded and prisoners...we expected another battle to day but they have skedadled... September 19, 1862, page 1 September 19,