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...brought it to Pittsburgh where in two or three weeks it killed some 5,000 of the city's 45,000 inhabitants. Business activities ceased, citizens barred themselves indoors, while carts rumbled off with the dead, and hydrants gushed to rid the town of its foulness. Among the devout who tolled their church bells and prayed for deliverance were the Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin, vowing that if they were spared they would devote a day to the two every year forever...
...spent at Troy, N. Y., and New York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given to his congregation. Her unselfish neighborliness was attested by many friends...
...years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish...
...devout Jews, Catholics, Protestants," or what not, wear our faith deep within us, a fundamental principle of Christian conduct and attitude, or is it merely a chip on our shoulders, to be knocked ignominiously into a cocked hat by a little chance phrase...
...illness. Said Fred Snite Sr. just before sailing: "My most valuable possession is in the steel respirator in that room. I told him that all my dollars might as well be wooden, if not devoted to saving his life." Mindful of friends at home, Father Snite, a devout Catholic who sponsors an annual Knights of Columbus golf tournament at Olympia Fields near Chicago every July, is bringing back 1,000 Chinese umbrellas to give to players as they...