Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
...merging of Byzantine and Romanesque styles.[3] The change in design had a number of reasons, which the architect, Charles Maginnis, stated arose out of a desire for a “distinctively American” church that would allow for a blending of the architecture in Washington D.C.[4] Another practical reason was the contemporary building
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...t. Xavier's Church, Cincinnati, Ohio PAHRC also has about a dozen preliminary drawings of churches by Packard, some of which include marginal notations or the signature of the pastor approving the final drawing. Sketch of St. Patrick's Church, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada The prints seem to have been produced
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...imately 11 priests, 16 churches and 30,000 Catholics. Archbishop Carroll nominated Reverend Michael Egan as the first bishop of the newly formed Diocese of Philadelphia. Carroll described Egan in his letter of nomination as “truly pious, learned, religious, remarkable for his great humility, but deficient perhaps, in firmness and without