Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...the founding of the new parish, devoted its coverage to local and national news relating to black Catholics as well as news about black issues in the United States. It also covered news concerning St. Peter Claver. The top of the newspaper's title page read “The Catholic Church is the

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William J. Lallou papers, circa 1890-1973 (MC 55)

...r Lady of Lourdes, where he served for 17 years. Lallou taught for several years at St. Charles Seminary and at the Catholic University of America where he himself received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate. He authored The fifty years of the apostolic delegation (1943), and was named a domestic

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Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful

...al, offered to spread one hundred loads of earth by hand. She died several years later after sustaining crippling injuries in a fire. True to her wishes, Katrina was buried in Old St. Mary’s Cemetery beneath the soil she helped spread. Her unmarked resting place remains unknown. Time and weather

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Canonization of Saint John Neumann

...re distributed so that people would pray for Neumann’s intervention. Three years later, Neumann’s two miracles would be approved, that of Lenahan and a 1923 healing of an eleven year old in Italy named Eva Benassi. The beatification was originally scheduled for June 23, 1963; however, in May it was

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