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...Philadelphia Pamphlets Parish Histories and Calendars Digital Collections Online Catalog Blog Online Exhibits Slide 5 Current Exhibit: Gift of Finest Wheat The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress Discover the Exhibit Slide 2 Newspaper Collection CHRC holds one of the largest collections of Catholic newspapers in the United States.

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Manuscript Collections

...consulted by visiting the Archives. Staff are currently working to create online finding aids. All of these collections are open to researchers. Some smaller collections, including the Fenian Brotherhood papers and materials relating to the Molly Maguires and the Nativist Riots of 1844, have been digitized as part of the

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St. Peter Claver

...ters of Mercy to form her own order, she meet the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Also known as the Holy Ghost Fathers, this order of priests had numerous missions in Africa and through the work of Drexel and Ryan, agreed to come to Philadelphia. Father Peter McDermott CSSp arrived

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Medical Mission Sisters

...ming a Worldwide Church with Members Who Love One Another,” https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/simply-spirit/becoming-worldwide-church-members-who-love-one-another. [5] Reher,"Denis J. Dougherty and Anna M. Dengel," 23. [6] ibid., 23. [7] “History,” Medical Missions Sisters. [8] Francis P. Goodall, "The Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries of Philadelphia: Twenty-five Years of Pioneering." Records of the American Catholic Historical

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