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Daughters of Charity – Civil War
The Daughters of Charity have received extensive attention during this 150th Anniversary Year of the CIvil War. The...
Gettysburg at 150 – Daughters of Charity
Sr. Denise LaRock does her own re-enactment on the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Angels...
Daughters of Charity Civil War museum
According to the local paper "Tourists are flocking en masse to the home of the peace-filled Daughters of Charity property in Emmitsburg, just as the U.S. Army did in 1863." The story continues... The new Charity Afire museum opened Friday at the National Shrine of...
Remembering another war and the Daughters of Charity
As we approach Memorial Day a Pennsylvania newspaper salutes the Daughters of Charity who served as nurses during the Civil War. "When the Daughters of Charity awakened June 27, 1863, the pastoral grounds of their Emmitsburg, Md,. property had become a Union Army...
St. Vincent’s Church in Civil War history
“The Unionists would all go to hell, and the secessionists to heaven.” That was the message Catherine Bockman heard when she attended Mass on May 27, 1862, at St. Vincent’s, near the French market in St. Louis’s Soulard neighborhood. She had come to pray for the...
American history’s best kept secret
"The country had only 600 trained nurses at the start of the Civil War. All were Catholic nuns. This is one of the best-kept secrets in our nation’s history," Civil War chaplain Father William Barnaby Faherty once said. Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity...
Nuns at war!
Catholic Nuns at War, so writes by SISTER JULIE inA nun's life blog. http://anunslife.org/2011/10/11/catholic-nuns-at-war/ A nun cares for a wounded soldier in this detail from a larger Civil War-era print featuring the field ministry of Holy Cross Father P.P. Cooney....
“Enlightened Charity” – a lost history
"Enligthened Charity is a lost history important to the identity of professional American nurses." writes the Vincentian History Researchers Network quoting the publisher. "Enlightened Charity documents the pioneering work of American Sisters of Charity nurses in the...
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati YouTube videos
The Sisters of Charity of Cinncinati have posted brief videos on YouTube . The first is a short video about the history of the Sisters of Charity during the Civil War and War today. The Sisters of Charity also celebrate Earth Day 2011.
Sisters of Charity and Philadelphia Civil War Hospital
As we begin to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, one example of this service that should be highlighted is the work of the Sisters of Charity at Satterlee Military Hospital. The sisters ministered to thousands of wounded and dying Civil...