41st International Eucharistic Congress
...ple. Another feature of the Congress was Peoples of the World Day where 22 different ethic Masses were held, ranging from Armenian to Korean, with 40,000 attending the Irish Mass on the grounds of St. Charles Seminary.[5] In addition to the numerous pilgrims, there were also a number of recognizable
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,
Black Catholic periodicals
...the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative of
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...th shop on the property once the blacksmith moved out. However of this new location Hawks wrote “it was totally inadequate; if anything it was worse than the store. One thing was certain, the chapel had to be enlarged as soon as possible.” Hawks told his parishioners that “we need