Editorial Cartoons

...woodcarving. Much of his work is featured in Catholic churches around the city, including the altar at the Church of the Gesu and the Stations of the Cross at St. Peter’s Church in West Brandywine. His cartoons were featured in The Catholic Standard and Times primarily between 1968 and 1976.

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Mark Antony Frenaye papers, 1807-1868 (MC 16)

...to, according to Frenaye, break down the system of trustee control in the city. Trusteeism involved the practice of Catholic laity assuming control of the administration of churches, even to the point of hiring and firing pastors. Frenaye also managed the Bishop’s Bank, which Bishop Kenrick established in 1848 for

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Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals

...hat Kenrick began his work in Philadelphia. During his twenty years in the city, Kenrick supported the building of asylums for young boys and girls and dozens of new churches throughout the diocese; wisely encouraged the establishment of a new diocese in Pittsburgh; and consented to the creation of the

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Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful

...Philadelphia. Katrina survived the yellow fever epidemic that ravaged the city in 1793. Fear of the fever was so great that survivors sought protection even from the dead. For sanitary reasons, over 2,600 loads of earth were spread over the surface of Old St. Mary’s Cemetery, raising the burial ground.

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