Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . 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 wasremov
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . 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. -7 120 A SYLVAN CITY. tlic (Inirch rcpoMs Evangeline. And so ends the prettyr rohes and heconu-^ only a Sister Camilla orIVtronilla with the rest. This chureh, like St. Marys,was thf eanse of schisms and clerical qnarrels. Trus-ters and Bishops could not agree, and there followed•• tcrrihle times, as a gc^od priest naively expresses it. There lias hccn a ^Mcat change of feeling in regard toCatliolics since ls^44. The old spirit of oi)position wasvery hitter. The Hindoos say that whether the knifefall on the melon, or the melon on the knife, the melonsuflers equally. And so it was with tlu they or the Protestants were at fliult, it is cer-tain that they paid the pi-nalty. Once the very sugges-tion of huihling houses for monks and nuns was likeapplying lighte»l kindling-wuud to well-laid logs, andhurried into riotou«^ outhnaks tho
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