41st International Eucharistic Congress

...hila.org/items/show/8122. [11] Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl, https://www.crsricebowl.org/about/ricebowl-faq. [12] MC 80, 100.463: Congress Hymn: Gift of Finest Wheat, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8120. [13] The 41st IEC: A History, 121. Archives Archives Select Month April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023

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Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...y men with 40 wagons takes up a tremendous length of road when on the march... March 5, 1874 letter to his mother, page 1 March 5, 1874 letter to his mother, pages 2-3 During the Spanish- American War, O'Reilly served as chief surgeon of the First Independent Division, the

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Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals

...Edited Appleton’s Enyclopedia. Virtualology, 2001. <http://famousamericans.net/francispatrickkenrick/>. Nolan, Hugh J. Francis Patrick Kenrick: Third Bishop of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1948. O'Shea, John J. "Francis Patrick and Peter Richard Kenrick." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08618a.htm>. Archives Archives S...

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World War One Army Chaplains

...ant pastor to a number of parishes including St. Patrick’s and Assumption B.V.M.[4] When the United States entered World War I, Father Wolfe applied to be an army chaplain, being first assigned to Camp Meade in Maryland. In May 1918, he was assigned to the 110th Infantry Regiment in the

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