Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . ather (»ithe Aiuericau Navy. and ol Kevohuionary fame, ishurietl iheri, anil not far from him lies CommodoreMeade, a later and eijually gallant ollieer. NVIuii forced from S|, .\hiry> the Jiishop took reiugeat St. .Io>,.|ihs and made it hi> Cathedral. Seldom ac-tively connected with the di-(»rders in the di(K-ese, thisehun-h. moie than once, hecanu- the refuge of tlioseupon whom the hiu-d«n fell. During the anti-Catholicriot> (»f whi-n lrote>tant> declared that tlie enemywas pn-paring a ne
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . ather (»ithe Aiuericau Navy. and ol Kevohuionary fame, ishurietl iheri, anil not far from him lies CommodoreMeade, a later and eijually gallant ollieer. NVIuii forced from S|, .\hiry> the Jiishop took reiugeat St. .Io>,.|ihs and made it hi> Cathedral. Seldom ac-tively connected with the di-(»rders in the di(K-ese, thisehun-h. moie than once, hecanu- the refuge of tlioseupon whom the hiu-d«n fell. During the anti-Catholicriot> (»f whi-n lrote>tant> declared that tlie enemywas pn-paring a new Saint IJartholomew ; when houseswith their owners still in them were hurued to a>hes ;when St. Augustines hurned to the music of the peo-ples hu/./ahs and Oraieje airs i)layetl on life and drum—IVen then St. . e-caped uusialhed. r,ut theannals of those trouhled limes have ncorded that itopcnecl its «h»Mrs to the pri«st and congregation of thedestroyed churches, and that the .hsuits hit them infull povvrvviuu at certain hours, s,, (hat at mass and &w^. OLD SAINT JOSEPHS. 125 vespers it might seem as if they were still in tlieir owneliurches. The Holy Trinity, which 4ooks like a cotlin, as Ihave heard it described, is the last building in Philadel-phia in which the red and black bricks, once so common,were used. Attached to it is a graveyard, whose time-worn tombstones bear old French and Spanish names,recalling the days when the City of Brotherly Love wel-comed the San Domingo refugees. Here, too, StephenGirard lay buried for many years before his body wasremoved to the college grounds. In one shady cornerthere is a slab, which covers the entrance to the vaultbelonging to the Sisters of Saint Joseph, and which issacred to the memory of Sisters Camilla, Petronilla,Anastasia and many other good Sis-t(>rs who have been long since forgot-ten. Even now, this reminder of themwould be unnoticed did not legenddeclare that here among her Sisters of
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