Pope visit
...pent the night down the street at the Cardinal’s residence. While the next day had no event to rival the Mass on the Parkway, it was still a busy day for the pope. First was an early morning visit to pray before the body of St. John Neumann at St.
Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion
...duced the devotion three hundred years earlier. Earlier fears of the three-day devotion were extinguished after no public disturbances occurred. The Catholic Herald listed other churches in the Diocese where Forty Hours would be held. Not long after, other dioceses adopted it and in 1866, the Plenary Council of Baltimore
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...guires was organized as a labor force against the coal mines. In the early days of labor unions and strikes, the Mollies chief tacit was the murder of mine bosses.[8] Starting in 1863, they began a decade long war against the mines. The conflict culminated in the execution of ten
Friendly and Adopted Sons
On St. Patrick’s Day in 1771, a group of Irish immigrants met to form a social group, Members included, Stephen Moylan (later secretary to George Washington), Thomas Fitzsimmons (one of only two Catholics to sign the Constitution), and George Meade (banker and trustee of Old. St. Mary’s).[1] The group was