Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...ned at St. Patrick's at 20th and Locust Streets. Every day, Father McGrane traveled from St. Patrick's to Satterlee to say mass, hear confessions, instruct and baptize and frequently arrange for burial. He labored throughout the war ministering to the wounded and dying. Archbishop James Wood also visited Satterlee several

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...of the Peace, for Schuylkill County, Penna., (Pottsville: Miners' Journal Book and Job Rooms, 1878), P001.1567 [9] P001.1567 [10] The great Mollie Maguire trials in Carbon and Schuylkill counties, Pa. : brief reference to such trials and arguments of Gen. Charles Albright and Hon. F.W. Hughes, in the case of

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...ng the Spanish Civil War." The Catholic Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2013), 500. [2] James Flint, ""Must God Go Fascist?": English Catholic Opinion and the Spanish Civil War." Church History 56, no. 3 (1987), 368. [3] Donald F. Crosby, "Boston's Catholics and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939." The New

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...Catholics Install Archbishop O’Hara In Solemn Ceremony at Cathedral,” Scrapbook 2016.026 [5] “Official Press Book Elevation and Investiture His Eminence John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C,” (Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times: 1958) [6] “Church Bells Greet New Archbishop,” Scrapbook 2016.026 [7] “Letter to Vincent Carroll, from Bishop J. Carroll McCormick,” 12/28/1951, MC79

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