Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters
...Feb. 12, 1920, CHRC On October 3, 1918, the Board of Health of the city of Philadelphia ordered the closing of all schools and suspended church services until further notice.[3] The ban would remain in effect for most of October, being lifted once the flu ran its course on the
Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals
...spatrickkenrick/>. Nolan, Hugh J. Francis Patrick Kenrick: Third Bishop of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1948. O'Shea, John J. "Francis Patrick and Peter Richard Kenrick." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08618a.htm>. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...ands of wounded and dying Civil War soldiers from 1862 until the hospital closed in 1865. Nurses and staff The 12-acre site where the Satterlee Hospital was located in West Philadelphia, bounded roughly by 40th to 44th Streets, from Spruce to Pine Streets, was at that time very rural, far
Archbishop Ryan
...Jubilee of the Most Reverend Patrick John Ryan, D.D., LL.D. Archbishop of Philadelphia, (Philadelphia: St. Dominic’s Rectory, 1897), 215. [4] Cowley, Silver Jubilee, 215. [5] Kirlin, Golden Jubilee, 12. [6] Kirlin, Golden Jubilee, 32 & 34. [7] Ryan, His Life and Times, 172 [8] “Dedication of The Roman Catholic High