Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...Quebec City, Quebec, Canada The prints seem to have been produced for a variety of uses. There are a number of prints that were used as certificates commemorating First Holy Communion and Confirmation. St. Mark's Church, Bristol, Pennsylvania Some were given as gifts for contributions to the church
Philadelphia’s First Catholic Cathedral
...cemetery for Old St. Joseph’s, Old St. Mary’s was referred to as “Mission Number 1” as St. Joseph’s was seen as the principal place of worship. The church was originally 50 feet by 80 feet and the entrance was through 5th street. Both George Washington and John Adams attended Vespers
World War One Army Chaplains
...as “tired and weary and sad for their dead” but able to repel the German advance “by cold steel and American valor.”[7] According to a lieutenant in his company, even when the battle was raging father Wolfe was always “right up in the front line all the time, encouraging and
Catholics in WWII
...which Philadelphia had the second most with 51. As the war continued that number would increase to 68, unfortunately eight of those Philadelphia priests would die in the war, the most of any U.S. diocese.[7] Meyer Photo: Margherita Camp Chapel From his priests, Dougherty would often receive monthly progress reports