Research guide for parish histories
...hen filed in the Parish Files. Spiritual reports are available to within 5 years of the current year. Financial reports are available through 1971. Both spiritual and financial reports are open through 1940. Spritual reports after 1940 may be accessed with permission of the pastor. Financial reports after 1940 require
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...er 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, more than 100 Daughters of Charity passed through the doors of Satterlee Hospital,
Black Catholic periodicals
...ignificant increase in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd started the weekly black newspaper American Catholic
The Centennial Fountain
...to raise one dollar per member in order to help cover the costs.[9] By the time the fountain was completed it would end up costing $54,000, with the statues going $5,000 over budget.[10] As the centennial year approached, the fountain was still far from completion as none of the statues