Carmelite Monastery
...ad once been part of the Satterlee Hospital, a hospital used during the American Civil War and staffed by the Daughters of Charity. This new home was more spacious than their previous location, although the home would not serve as a full-fledged convent. When the time came to expand, the
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...ed a serious dearth of clergy after the end of the war. As a scholar of American history and in particular, of French-American relations during the Revolutionary War, Kite knew the extent to which the French assisted the Americans during their fight for independence. Heuser’s initial response was that the
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