Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...tinue to run the school and separate catechetical classes for the years to come. The order also ran a boarding school/orphanage out of their Motherhouse called Holy Providence. The school was the first official work the order undertook, beginning when the sisters were still at their temporary convent while St.
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...sters of Mercy, Brooklyn, New York A few portraits of priests: Reverend B.F. McLoughlin And large bird’s eye views of Norristown, Pennsylvania and New Brunswick and Paterson, New Jersey. The bird's eye views include vignettes of notable businesses, institutions and residences. Norristown, Pennsylvania There are not enough
A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...chdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Directory, (Philadelphia: CatholicPhilly.com, 2018). [2] Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Directory, (Philadelphia: CatholicPhilly.com, 2018). [3]John Gilmary Shea, Life and Times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, Bishop and First Archbishop of Baltimore, (New York: 1888). [4] Thomas Rzeznik, “Roman Catholic Parishes,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/roman-ca...
Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview
...w to listen to him describe this memory, or read the excerpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And I remember going into the church and being there for the whole Mass. Now she had to carry my brother in her arms and my sister just about walking, and I was about 4 years