Research guide for parish histories
...contact CHRC staff for more information. Researchers should contact individual parishes or schools for information. Also, if a school or academy was run by a particular religious order, researchers should contact the order's archives for information. Rectory ground-breaking ceremony, Most Precious Blood, 1916...
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...he case of the Commonwealth vs. John Kehoe et al. : members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, commonly known as "Molly Maguires," indicted in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for Schuylkill County, Penna., (Pottsville: Miners' Journal Book and Job Rooms, 1878), P001.1567 [9] P001.1567 [10] The
The Centennial Fountain
...airmount Park to celebrate temperance, Catholicism, and Irish-heritage. In order to accomplish this plan, in 1873 the group brought a proposal forward at the third annual convention for Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America (CTAU). The resolution passed with the stated goal of the fountain being a “testimony to the
Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia
...sters of St. Joseph, 1897 [3] P002.1852: Gleanings in historic fields, 1650-1798; commemorative of the two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary 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: