Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...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, more than 100 Daughters of Charity passed through the doors of
Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia
...focusing the sisters to sleep on straw from the stables for the first few days.[6] Soon Bishops Nuemann and Wood visited and helped get the new motherhouse organized. It would be the Coadjutor Bishop Wood that gave the area its name of Mount St. Joseph since the house lay on
Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals
...d Patrick Bradley into his home that marked the establishment of what is today St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Having such extensive experience as an educator, Kenrick taught his own students until his brother Peter arrived in 1834 and began to assist him. It seems fitting that a man so earnest
Research guide for parish histories
...are usually documented by articles from both the Catholic newspaper of the time and secular newspapers. Consultors' Minute Books, 1896-1991 These provide brief descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers of the