Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...olored races.” The new order, the first to minister to the needs of Native-Americans and African-Americans, grew slowly. In 1892, twelve postulates received the habit of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (SBS). Ultimately, more than 100 SBS educational intuitions, including Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, would be founded
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...us orders from teaching.[1] Due to these restrictions, many saw the Nationalists as the side who would help protect and restore the Church.[2] Nationalist forces on the march to Bielsa. Msgr. Hawks slide collection Further support for the Nationalists grew out of the growing presence of communists in the Republican
Herman Joseph Heuser Papers
...Herman Joseph Heuser, May 15, 1912, back Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American Realist painter. He studied and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and frequently painted portraits. In this letter to Heuser, Eakins asks him to translate a phrase into Latin for a portrait
Irish Land War
...nd War in Ireland over the centuries old landlordism system. By 1879, about 800 families owned half of the country’s land and acted as landlords, renting small plots of land out to the majority of the population (an estimated five million people). The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and the American