The Centennial Fountain

...ony to the patriotic feeling of the Catholic Total Abstainers all over the United States.”[1] CHRC Catholic Standard, March 25, 1876, SB1, page 224 With the approval and backing of the national society, the Philadelphia chapter began planning and fundraising. After an original design focusing on the connection between America

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Thomas Lloyd family papers, 1766-1867 (MC 45)

...ngton’s first inaugural address, which was published in the Gazette of the United States. Lloyd emigrated from London shortly before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. During the war, he served as a soldier with the Maryland militia. Lloyd later moved to Philadelphia, where he gained notoriety as a skilled

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Herman Joseph Heuser Papers

...on Sheehan of Doneraile. Oliver Wendell Holmes to Herman Joseph Heuser, May 1, 1917 Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022

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The Church and Labor

...nd. Monsignor George G. Higgins presented 1995 Rerum Novarum Award by Local 1776 United Food & Commercial Workers. Halvey 454K Many Catholic across Europe and America saw the importance of Rerum Novarum, with some comparing its effect on labor to the effect of the Manga Carta on liberty.[4] Msgr. John

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