Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...ional Catholic Community Service.[7] The club officially opened on December 10, 1941. The planned party was changed to a more muted affair in light of the attack on Pearl Harbor two days prior.[8] One of the many dances at the club Unlike the Benedict Club of the First World War,

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Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...ratify the amendment.) Jane Campbell to her nephew John J. Campbell, August 13, 1920, p.1 Jane Campbell to her nephew John J. Campbell, p.2 Other materials relating to Jane include her will, and land deeds for the property she and Marianne purchased in Germantown. PAHRC has an almost complete set

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James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?

...llection that seems to fall within this category is the David Lynch Papers, 1830-1865 (MC 13), possibly collected by the ACHS due to the mere fact that Lynch may have been Catholic. A tobacconist from Pittsburgh, PA, David Lynch (1793-1860) had served as a major in the land and marine

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Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress

...eme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by more than 800 people.

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