Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General
...rgeon of the First Independent Division at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and delegate at the International Conference for the Revision of the Geneva Convention in Geneva in 1906. The collection contains correspondence, general orders, assignments, certificates of appointment, circulars, clippings, invitations, a notebook and a scrapbook. O’Reilly led
Modern Pro-Catholic Comics
...cartoonists portray Catholics in a positive and heroic light. An unlikely promoter of Catholicism was Marvel Comics, which published a series of comic books focusing on the lives of influential Catholics. Published in the 1980s, Marvel would team up with Catholic writers in order to produce stories on religious figures.
41st International Eucharistic Congress
In 1976, Philadelphia hosted a major event unrelated to the bicentennial celebrations. It was the 41st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), which brought Catholics together from around the world to celebrate and discuss a theme connected to the Eucharist. The history of the event dates back to 1881, when a one