All posts tagged "Holy Cross"
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4.4K1Religion and Social MovementsJean-Louis Cheverus, the Catholic Priest Even the Puritans Liked
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...
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17.2K8Crime and ScandalThe Kid Wrongly Blamed for the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Stanley Tomaszewski was a 16-year-old busboy working on the night of the Cocoanut Grove fire, Nov. 28, 1942, the Saturday after Thanksgiving....
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7.9K1Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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7.1K3MassachusettsJoseph T. O’Callahan, A Claustrophobic Priest, Wins the Medal of Honor
Father Joseph T. O’Callahan left his classroom at Holy Cross College to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserve as the United States...
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6.8K6MaineJames Healy, Portland’s African-American Bishop Who Passed for White
James Healy, born a slave, became the Roman Catholic bishop of Portland and founder of the Diocese of Manchester in the late...
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3.3K5Arts and LeisureHuskies Upset Princeton, And Huskymania Is Born
If Huskymania can be traced to a single moment, it would probably be March 13, 1964, when UConn Huskies guard Dom Perno...
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6.2K7MassachusettsSurprising List of 10 New Englanders Turned On By Timothy Leary
When Timothy Leary famously turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, he took a lot of people with him. Leary, the LSD guru...
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