Alliance of Catholic Women
...M413 The Alliance also did charitable and evangelical work throughout the city. During both World Wars, members of the ACW were in charge of selling war bonds, selling millions of dollars’ worth in both wars.[9] In their 1940 year book, they mention working with the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...reform and the labor movement. Depictions of tenement housing in New York City Illustration showing British imperialism in Egypt Redpath also realized that a newspaper devoted primarily to Ireland and social reform may have limited appeal, so he tried to broaden its readership by including humorous pieces, domestic and
Canonization of Saint John Neumann
...e Neumann bishop, performed by his Holiness Paul VI, June 19 1977 (Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotto Vaticana, 1977), 11-12. [2] AC 2010.061 Box 1 Philadelphinensis Beatificationis et Canonizationis Servi Dei Joannis Nepomuceni Neumann. Olim Episcopi Philadelphiensis et Alumni Congnis SSini Redemptoris, Session 1, May 1886. [3] P010.319: Bishop Neumann, Pilgrim:
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...eet in 1888. In 1892, that operation became St. Peter Claver’s Parish, the city’s first Roman Catholic Parish for African-Americans, located at 12th and Lombard Street. Many of the first sisters to join the SBS had taught previously at St. Peter Claver School. In 1908, Sisters of the Blessed took