Episodes about "19th century"

St. Anthony Chapel, Pittsburgh

St. Anthony Chapel, Pittsburgh

St. Anthony Chapel in Pittsburgh is a remarkable place of pilgrimage containing more than 5,000 relics of saints, the Blessed Mother, and Jesus.

Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli

Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli

An Italian Dominican friar missionary named Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli evangelized the American Midwest in the early 19th century. His example continues to inspire.

Rose Hawthorne

Rose Hawthorne

Rose Hawthorne was born into American literary royalty, but converted to Catholicism and eventually founded the Dominicans of Hawthorne and a hospital.

Loretto Staircase

Loretto Staircase

The “miraculous” Loretto Staircase is in the Chapel of the Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was purportedly built by St. Joseph.

General James Longstreet

General James Longstreet

James Longstreet was a Civil War Confederate general rejected by his former compatriots after the war, who eventually became Catholic.

Henriette DeLille

Henriette DeLille

Henriette DeLille was a woman of mixed race in antebellum New Orleans who rejected the placage system and founded an order that educated the children of slaves

Stagecoach Mary

Stagecoach Mary

Mary Fields, AKA “Stagecoach Mary,” was a gun-toting, hard-drinking, street-brawling black woman on the Montana frontier, with a soft spot for some Ursulines

Prince Gallitzin

Prince Gallitzin

Demetrius Augustin “Prince Gallitzin” was a Russian prince who immigrated, was ordained, and established the Church in the middle of Pennsylvania.