Recap of “To Touch a Saint: Creating a Place for Middle School Students” Grant Program!

...program. Through April and May of 2019, the CHRC, located in Northeast Philadelphia in the former Our Lady of Ransom School, had 572 seventh and eighth grade students visit. This number does not include the teachers, principals, or priests that accompanied them. During their visit, they had an interactive and

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...lack families were able to rent pews in the gallery of Old St. Joseph. The number of black Catholics in Philadelphia grew considerably during the Haitian revolution (1791-1804) when many refugees immigrated to the city. Evidence of black Catholics can be found within the sacramental registers of the older parishes,

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Alliance of Catholic Women

...given year, the Alliance would roll it over into sufficient funds were available.[8] Later, the Alliance of Catholic Women would go on to support students studying at Catholic University in D.C. and various seminaries. ACW donating layettes to Catholic Children's Bureau. Halvey M413 The Alliance also did charitable and evangelical

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Misericordia Hospital

...ld allow students to be exposed to more treatments of various diseases.The last class of nurses graduated in 1971 due to the closing of the the nursing program.[15] The hospital would continue to expand with a new cancer treatment center opened in 1992 and and an emergency care facility in

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