Archbishop Ryan
...me Drexel’s spiritual advisor. It was Ryan’s suggest that Drexel named the order the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.[13] Furthermore, it was through the guidance of Ryan that Mother Katharine wrote the rule for her new order. Ryan's Funeral, February 16, 1911 Ryan would
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
.... Egan was born in 1761 in Limerick, Ireland. As a young man he joined the Order of Friars Minor, and studied at Louvain and Prague, where he was probably ordained. Several members of Bishop Egan’s family came to the United States during his tenure, and settled in Philadelphia. Egan’s
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...beled but generally are not. St. Stanislaus Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin A number of the exterior views also include vignettes of the pastor or other parish buildings such as the school, rectory and convent or the former church. St. Mary's Church, Norwalk, Ohio The exterior views also have standard touches such