The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell
.... Emma’s Agricultural and Industrial School in Virginia to provide young African-American men with secular and religious education. The plight of African-Americans was an area of intense concern for Louise. She was one of the early supporters of the Catholic Interracial Movement. St. Francis' Industrial School, ca. 1897 Although extremely
St. Peter Claver
...in France and the statues were imported from Italy.[10] In 1903, new electrical lights in the shape of stars were installed and two gold crowns were made to adorn the statues of Jesus and Mary.[11] As St. Peter Claver’s grew, a new school was needed, which was dedicated in 1906.[12]
The Centennial Fountain
...ns. [1] Joseph Gibbs, History of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, (Philadelphia: 1907), 26. [2] Daria Gasparini, “A Celebration of Moral Force: The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of American Centennial Fountain,” Master’s Thesis (University of Pennsylvania, 2002), 7. [3] Gibbs, History of the Catholic, 34. [4] Gasparini, “A
The Vatican – Marian Year Stamp Philatelic Exhibition
...shown thus far" in the Philadelphia museum. In addition to being the first time Vatican stamps were exhibited in America, the exhibit commemorated the 25th anniversary of the first postage stamps issued by Vatican City in 1929. Francis Cardinal Spellman and Archbishop John O'Hara looking at some of the