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...

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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:

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...a (closed in 1983). The main convent was moved from Derby to Saint Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1848. Cornelia spent most of her time at this convent-school. While at Saint Leonards-on-Sea, foundress Cornelia Connelly passed into eternal life on April 18, 1879, and is interred there. In 1992. She was declared

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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

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