Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara
...eceptions held in his honor.[6] Once the train made it to Philadelphia the day before the installation, O’Hara was greeted by Governor John Fine and Mayor Joseph Clark.[7] The installation was held on Wednesday January 9th at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, with over 100 archbishops, bishops,
Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion
...duced the devotion three hundred years earlier. Earlier fears of the three-day devotion were extinguished after no public disturbances occurred. The Catholic Herald listed other churches in the Diocese where Forty Hours would be held. Not long after, other dioceses adopted it and in 1866, the Plenary Council of Baltimore
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...guires was organized as a labor force against the coal mines. In the early days of labor unions and strikes, the Mollies chief tacit was the murder of mine bosses.[8] Starting in 1863, they began a decade long war against the mines. The conflict culminated in the execution of ten
The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
...rked the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. The 69th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which Philadelphia native William C. White served, participated in this harrowing conflict. Several letters that White wrote to his parents shortly after the battle describe some his