In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...1795-1963 (MC 90) Finding aid. [2] Engbers, Susanna Kelly. "A Woman Both "New" and "True": Jane Campbell as Catholic Suffragist." American Catholic Studies 126, no. 2 (2015), 31. [3] Jane Campbell Obituary, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8195. [4] Catholic Standard and Times, June, 14, 1919. [5] Catholic Standard and Times, August 2, 1913. [6]

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10th Synod

...pon the years of preparation that were done for Catholic Life 2000 and the new Catholic millennium. A synod is a “group of selected priest and other member of the Christian faithful who offer assistant to the diocesan bishop for the good of the whole diocesan community[2]. The goal is

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Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...largely sick holy people. On Saturday I sent seven Sisters of Charity from New Orleans off on a ship to Santiago...They are yellow fever nurses. O'Reilly to his sister, August 16, 1898, page 1 He continues on the second page: We are moving the troops out of here as fast

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Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General

...cates are large in scale, below is a letter congratulating O'Reilly on his new position as Assistant Surgeon. Letter from War Department, August 5, 1867 Letter from War Department, August 5, 1867 A high point in the collection is a scrapbook kept while O’Reilly was abroad serving as a delegate

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