Drexel Beatification

...e end of June, 1988, while at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse, Archbishop Anthony J. Bevilacqua announced that Drexel would be beatified by Pope John Paul II in the months to come. Halvey_246G_007 Halvey_246G_006 Halvey_246G_001   Mass of Thanksgiving With this miracle approved, Katharine Drexel was beatified on

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Eden Hall

...d not attend the funeral, they requested that on the return to the Motherhouse, a detour be made through the grounds on Eden Hall in Torresdale. The Religious and their students lined the driveway as the funeral cortege passed silently through the grounds. The children from Saint Catharine’s grade school

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Old St. Joseph marriage record, June 1801

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

A major part of the American Catholic Historical Society’s collection housed at PAHRC is its collection of Catholic newspapers. This collection contains Catholic newspapers, mostly from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries, that were published throughout the United States, as well as some foreign newspapers. One of these

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