Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...hool opened as Holy Providence a year later in 1892, it had grown from one student to over a hundred. Holy Providence would also serve as an orphanage for both boys and girls and would remain in operation until 1971. Saint Katharine Drexel and the work of the Sisters of
Pope visit
...tendance was a 2,000 elementary student choir, as well as, 750 high school students. Halvey_345A_009 Halvey_345A_002 Saturday in the Parkway After a short welcome ceremony at the Cathedral, the pope walked the short distance to Logan Circle to celebrate Mass. His Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was the
Patrick Reilly papers, 1828-1878 (MC 42)
...antly during the Civil War due to the fact that more than one third of the student body was from the southern states. It closed in 1866. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, most of it covering the years 1841-1866 when Reilly ran St. Mary’s College. Most of this
Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals
...sts in his diocese were well-educated, and it was his welcoming of a young student named Patrick Bradley into his home that marked the establishment of what is today St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Having such extensive experience as an educator, Kenrick taught his own students until his brother Peter arrived