Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion
...riate to talk about the Forty Hours Devotion. The devotion began in Milan, Italy, in memory of the forty hours that the Sacred Body of Jesus laid in the tomb. Not long after, the practice spread to Rome by way of Saint Philip Neri and was celebrated on the first
Canonization of Saint John Neumann
...d be approved, that of Lenahan and a 1923 healing of an eleven year old in Italy named Eva Benassi. The beatification was originally scheduled for June 23, 1963; however, in May it was delayed because of the ill health of Pope John XXIII. The pope would pass away on
Newspapers & Periodicals
...well as some Catholic newspapers from Canada, England, Ireland, France and Italy. The collection contains over 300 titles, representing 35 states and the District of Columbia, and covers the period primarily from the 1820’s through the 1940’s. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1840’s through the 1920’s. Click
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...heaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese, Dougherty called the motion picture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others