Parish Mapping Project

...tant primary sources included, bishop correspondence, the Consultor minute books and a hand written parish boundary book. Excerpt from the Catholic Standard Directory Once we had data on the boundaries in 1971, the first step was to import the current map boundaries to our google maps account. This way we

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Herman Joseph Heuser papers, 1811-1933 (MC 1)

...on Patrick Augustine Sheehan of Doneraile, Ireland, specifically Sheehan’s book, My New Curate; a story gathered from the stray leaves of an old diary, which appeared serially in Heuser’s magazine. Items, such as drafts and research notes, deriving from Heuser’s work with the American Ecclesiastical Review and the Dolphin, are

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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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Eleanor C. Donnelly papers. 1873-1905 (MC 48)

...the Augustinian magazine, “Our Lady of Good Counsel.” This collection contains correspondence, largely from priests and Bishops throughout the United States in answer to her requests for facsimiles of episcopal seals. Also included is an autograph book containing signatures of American Confederate prisoners of war held at the Johnson’s Island

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