Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by more than 800 people. The 1979 event in Philadelphia would last for a week and be attended by over 1.5 million people, including 44 Cardinals and 417 bishops
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...re the Germans officially surrendered to President Eisenhower in 1945, one day before VE-Day. Reference Kite, Elizabeth Sarah. “A Plea for the Seminaries of France.” The American Ecclesiastical Review 64 (1921): 407-411. Print. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October
The Church and Labor
...ike and continues to be an integral part of the Church’s mission through today. See the full collection of pamphlets and writings on labor on our online catalog: [1] Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter of Our Holy Father by Divine Providence Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labor, (Philadelphia: Hardy
A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...ard and Times, (July 29, 1976); “The Catholic Church in Pennsylvania before 1800,” http://omeka.pahrc.net/admin/items/show/id/7133. [6] Christine Friend, “Philadelphia’s First Bishop,” CHRC (February 22, 2010), http://www.chrc-phila.org/philadelphias-first-bishop/. [7] Martin I. J. Griffin, “Life of Bishop Conwell,” Records of the American Catholic History Society of Philadelphia, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 1914), 160.