St. Peter Claver

...Katharine Drexel, 3/26/1889, MC 76: 61.686 [2] Historic St. Peter Claver R.C. Church, 101st Anniversary, PH 120 [3] Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of St. peter Claver’s Parish, 1961, PH 120 [4] Golden Jubilee of St. Peter Claver’s, 1936, PH 120 [5] Golden Jubilee of St. Peter Claver’s, 1936, PH

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Reverend William McGarvey papers, circa 1900 (MC 5)

...led 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 pulpit” resolution at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1907. This resolution

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...Nazism during the Spanish Civil War." The Catholic Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2013), 500. [2] James Flint, ""Must God Go Fascist?": English Catholic Opinion and the Spanish Civil War." Church History 56, no. 3 (1987), 368. [3] Donald F. Crosby, "Boston's Catholics and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939." The

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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

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