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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Saint Joseph’s Center is set to close its doors for good after more than 100 years in the community ...
The St. Joseph Orphanage, a historic building in North Little Rock, is set to be demolished. The wildfire outbreak from earlier this year severely damaged the building.
Four women, all now in their 80s or 90s, have one thing in common: Their lives all intersected at the old German Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum on Dodge Street in ...
ST. VINCENT'S ORPHAN ASYLUM served as a Catholic home for boys ages 4-14 from 1852 until 1925. Bp. AMADEUS RAPPE founded the home, run by the SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE. St. Vincent's opened ...
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The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews of this city got $5,000 each, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York received $10,000 and the Montefiore Hospital ...
Fifty years ago this month, two Australian Catholic nurses, Margaret Moses and Lee Makk, from the Adelaide Sisters of Mercy boarded a US Air Force C-5A Galaxy aircraft carrying more than 300 ...
BELLEFAIRE-JCB is the oldest Jewish social-service agency in Cleveland. It was established in 1868 by the B'NAI B'RITH Grand Lodge #2 to care for Jewish Civil War orphans from 15 states. A large ...
With their mother unable to care for them and their father working full time, the children were sent to an orphanage in Ukiah, an establishment run by Catholic nuns named the Albertinum Orphan Asylum.
When Orphans Aren’t Actually Orphans In “The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow,” Kristen Martin digs into the troubled history of orphanhood in America.
St. John’s Orphan Asylum as Bishop Maes knew it in 1910. The chapel building was erected in 1876; the first floor was where the Christmas celebrations took place; the chapel occupied the second ...
The older children went to live with relatives. But the three youngest children (Frank Jr., 9; John, 5; Louisa, 2) were placed in the St. Benedict Monastery’s Orphan Asylum, a big building next to the ...