Pope
...onal Guard protecting an Irish Protestant parade. In response, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. This cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their
Jubilees and Holy Years
...ist.” Over 40,000 lined the Parkway from the Cathedral to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In the Bull of Indiction, Spes Non Confundit (Hope does not disappoint), Pope Francis ended with the following message: In our journey towards the Jubilee, let us return to Scripture and realize
Herman Joseph Heuser Papers
...ter. He studied and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and frequently painted portraits. In this letter to Heuser, Eakins asks him to translate a phrase into Latin for a portrait of a woman who plans on giving the painting to her son who is