Medical Mission Sisters

...35,000 patients and assisted in 641 births.[10] Furthermore, while in many places the sisters were not allowed to actively proselytize, they were instructed by Mother Dengal to “teach by example."[11] By doing so the sisters were able to convert many to Catholicism, baptizing 561 in Rawalpindi in the year 1944

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Parish Mapping Project

...e that we have had to overcome is the change in the landscape and names of places. Many of the locations or names of streets that were used to describe the boundaries of a parish have either been removed or have changed over the years. When this has happened, we

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“An Appeal to Truth”

...ional interest of Germany to confute us.” (9) Additionally, this statement places the German Bishops in a precarious position because if they do not accept the public trial then it could be argued that they did not rise to defend the honor of Germany and its soldiers. The Cardinal maintained

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Collections

...ection CHRC has numerous images of churches, religious persons, events and places relating to the history of the Archdiocese. Photographs Lithographs Manuscript Collections The Manuscript Collection includes records of all of the bishops and archbishops of Philadelphia up to the present. The Manuscript Collection of the American Catholic Historical Society

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