Liturgical Week
...oly Father.” Halvey_P544_001 Halvey_P797_001 Altering the Altar The four-day program which ran from August 19th to the 22nd, would include sessions, meetings, and art displays. The keystone event was Archbishop Krol’s opening Mass, which featured a simple altar facing the congregation. Although not the first Mass to be celebrated
Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion
...duced the devotion three hundred years earlier. Earlier fears of the three-day devotion were extinguished after no public disturbances occurred. The Catholic Herald listed other churches in the Diocese where Forty Hours would be held. Not long after, other dioceses adopted it and in 1866, the Plenary Council of Baltimore
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...guires was organized as a labor force against the coal mines. In the early days of labor unions and strikes, the Mollies chief tacit was the murder of mine bosses.[8] Starting in 1863, they began a decade long war against the mines. The conflict culminated in the execution of ten
Misericordia Hospital
...of 1916 and February of 1918 respectively.[8] Misericordia had a quiet two days after opening before the first patient, a Ms. Bridget Murry, was admitted into the hospital. [9] Since that day the staff has continued to care for the sick of West Philadelphia. Indeed, a report on the first