Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...to open clubs throughout the country to build and preserve morale of the military.[4] Cardinal Dougherty “heartily endorsed” the endeavor and pledged “his entire cooperation” since he saw it as a way to “thwart adverse influences and prevent our young men from being ruined physically and spiritually.”[5] The parishes of

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Ann Mattingly’s Miracle Cure

...s. After this, she was unable to leave her bed for months, though she was visited consistently by doctors. The pamphlet gives explicit details of the pain and agony she endured while she was bedbound. One such detail is that “she constantly felt a tightness across her breast, as if

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...ing the 1800s there were two major organizations that attracted numbers of Irish Catholics: the Fenian Brotherhood and the Molly Maguires. The Fenian Brotherhood was founded in 1858 as a national movement for the liberation of Ireland from English rule.[1] The Molly Maguires were likely founded in 1863 and were

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Catabloging

Through my employment here, I am a member of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, or DVAG, and have found the association's meetings to be very informative and educational. It was at a DVAG meeting a couple of years ago that Cathleen Miller, who at the time was serving as Project

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