Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...eme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual 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.
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...ional Catholic Community Service.[7] The club officially opened on December 10, 1941. The planned party was changed to a more muted affair in light of the attack on Pearl Harbor two days prior.[8] One of the many dances at the club Unlike the Benedict Club of the First World War,
Patrick Reilly papers, 1828-1878 (MC 42)
...College in 1841. The school was considered the most prominent Catholic men’s boarding school in the mid-Atlantic region. Attendance at the school dropped significantly during the Civil War due to the fact that more than one third of the student body was from the southern states. It closed in 1866.
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ladelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his time. During the 1920s, Ascension of Our Lord Parish in the city’s Kensington section sponsored one of the many independent semi-professional baseball teams in Philadelphia. In 1923 the Ascension Catholic Club was in serious financial trouble. The club had built a