Reverend William McGarvey papers, circa 1900 (MC 5)
...1861-1924) was an Episcopal priest in Philadelphia who founded a religious order in 1891 called the Congregation of the Companions of the Holy Saviour. Members of the order commit to vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. McGarvey later left for the Roman Catholic Church after the adoption of the “open
Neumann Canonization
...school system, introduced the Forty Hours Devotion, and founded the Third Order of Saint Francis. It was not long after his death that calls were being made to open his cause for canonization. In May of 1886, the Diocese of Philadelphia and his order, the Congregation of the Most Holy
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...documented, led him to believe that the Nationalists needed to triumph in order to restore Spain from the damage inflicted by the Second Republic and the Republican forces. Hawks went on to write for numerous Catholic newspapers and journals on the horrors of the war and the need for Catholics
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