Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia
...nniversary of the foundation of our Congregation at Le Puy, France, October 15, 1650. [4] P019.154: Constitutions of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Philadelphia, 1939 [5] IC117: Glimpses of the Past: A Jubilee Sketch of Mt. St. Joseph, Chestnut Hill, 1858-1908 [6] P008.067 Elizabeth de Sales
American Czestochowa
...ealized when a solemn procession was led to nearby Beacon Hill on September 17, 1963. A year later, Cardinal Krol preside over a groundbreaking ceremony on the feast of our Lady of Chestochowa. The goal of the Pauline Fathers was to have the new Shrine completed by 1966: the millennium
Carmelite Monastery
...tine style, was dedicated by Archbishop Edmund Prendergast on September 26, 1915 with a crowd of 10,000 onlookers. One of the main obstacles facing the nuns was the construction of 66th Avenue and have it extended through the monastery property. They tried to get the City planners to reconsider this,
Irish Land War
...te to the Land War in Ireland over the centuries old landlordism system. By 1879, about 800 families owned half of the country’s land and acted as landlords, renting small plots of land out to the majority of the population (an estimated five million people). The Franco-Prussian war of 1870