Newman Centers
...both professionals and students. Other Newman clubs would begin to open in Philadelphia area schools, including Temple and Drexel as well as many of the medical colleges such as Hahnemann and the Woman’s Medical College.[6] And by the 1940s, a majority of local non-Catholic colleges had their own Newman Centers
The Bishop’s Bank
...rly known as the "Bishop's Bank", it was managed by Mark Antony Frenaye, a Philadelphia Catholic businessman who served for many years as the financier and treasurer of the Diocese of Philadelphia. Mark Antony Frenaye, n.d. The rules of the bank for conducting business are written in the front of
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...m 1844 refers to the danger of being Catholic during the Nativist riots in Philadelphia.[13] St. Thomas the Apostle Church When she passed away at the age of 69 in 1866, she was described in her obituary as having “embraced her adopted religion with all the steadfastness, ardor, and enthusiasm
Martin I. J. Griffin papers, 1842-1950 (MC 8)
...orical associations, including the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Society of Philadelphia and served as secretary for the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union. An energetic promoter, he organized Philadelphia’s first youth’s Catholic Total Abstinence Society and in 1872 was one of the founders of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America.