Vistarama

...to acquaint the public with the world wide work of the Catholic Church and promote the various apostolic services. Hosted in Convention Hall, over 400 exhibits from 170 mission societies would be on display for the public over the course of a week. The week would open with a Pontifical

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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

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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

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