Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...the war ministering to the wounded and dying. Archbishop James Wood also visited Satterlee several times to confirm many adult converts. Father Peter McGrane, no date The practice of military medicine during the war was an eye-opening experience. The wounds caused by the new and improved artillery met the outdated

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate

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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

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Eucharistic Congress

...Over the week, the Congress also featured art and exhibits, such as performances of Godspell, A Man for All Seasons, and Foolsgold, a mime performance at Old St. Joseph’s Church. Halvey_A443_011 Halvey_A429_091 Halvey_A443_002 Halvey_A443_004   Processions and Masses The Eucharistic Congress was a major event in the city and attended

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