American Czestochowa
...Poland’s revered Marian icon: Our Lady of Czestochowa. It is said that the image was painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist. Until 1948, Father Zembrzuski headed the Hungarian province of the community founded by Blessed Eusebius of Esztergom. He was ousted from Hungary by the Communist government of the Hungarian
The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell
...s both within and outside the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. However, her sister, Louise Drexel Morrell is little remembered. Only the Morrell Park section of Northeast Philadelphia, which occupies the former site of her family estate “San Jose”, as well as Morrell Avenue in the same area, bears memory to her
Eden Hall
Postcard with aerial view of Eden Hall Among the landscape of Northeast Philadelphia, in the Torresdale neighborhood, lies Fleuhr Park. Filled with walking trails and athletic fields, a majority of this area once belonged to the Society of the Sacred Heart and their academy: Eden Hall. Science class at Eden
A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
Catholic Historical Research Center Digital Collections https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7133 While the founding of Philadelphia as a diocese dates back to 1808 when it was separated from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the history of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania dates back another hundred years. The first Mass in Philadelphia was said in 1708