Victory Mass
...m and patriotism in a new way as it framed the war as one needed to defend Western civilization against the aggression and destruction of Nazi Germany. https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/6875 For more on the Victory Mass visit the archives for our scrapbook collection, which has numerous newspaper articles and ephemera on the
The American Catholic Historical Researches Vol. 15 papers, ca. 1810-1898 (MC 56)
Started in 1884, the Historical Researches in Western Pennsylvania—Principally Catholic was a quarterly magazine that facilitated the gathering of information–documents, comments, correspondence, etc.–that helped document the activities and history of the Church and Catholics in America for future scholars, historians, and Catholics interested in American Catholicism. By 1886, the quarterly
Pilgrimage of Hope
...way is the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, the oldest Marian worship site in Western Christianity. According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to Pope Liberius and a wealthy man named John Patricius in 352. She told them to build a church on a spot where snow would fall in
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