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Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia

...00 SBS educational intuitions, including Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, would be founded across 23 states and 3 countries. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Being from Philadelphia and having the order’s Motherhouse located right outside the city in Cornwells Heights, Katharine Drexel and the SBS paid special attention

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...nd lithographer from Boston where he worked for the lithography firm of Haskell and Allen. Butler was a lithographer from New York City. The church lithograph collection contains images of churches from Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New

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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

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