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...rary at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Villanova University Digital Library Philadelphia City Archives Marriage Record Office Free Library of Philadelphia National Archives Mid-Atlantic Region The Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Montgomery County, PA Chester County Historical Society Bucks County Historical Society Delaware

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Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan

...enrick and Cardinal Dennis Dougherty for The History of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, published in 1976 for the American Bicentennial. On the parish level, Reverend Nolan served at several parishes during his academic career. After his time at Immaculata College, he was named pastor of Saint Isaac Jogues parish in

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Parish Mapping Project

...e current five counties that make up current the archdiocese. It does not include areas that were once part of the archdiocese but are now part of another diocese. From the 1971 date it was decided to go back fifty years from that to 1921 and then another fifty years

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...ections of theAmerican Catholic Historical Society, we have the correspondence of the Fenians’ treasurer, Francis Gallagher, which documents the planning for the second invasion and the concern among most of the officers that the plan was doomed to fail.[6] In a letter to Gallagher from Richard McCloud, Secretary of the

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