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by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Allison Spies, News, Practicing Catholic, Religious Sisters, Sister Carolyn Puccio, St. Joseph of Carondelet | 0 |
After 61 years in religious life, Sister Carolyn Puccio, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, told “Practicing Catholic” radio show host Patrick Conley, “I can’t understand why there isn’t a line all the way around the block to join the Sisters of St. Joseph. It’s been a wonderful life.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Allison Spies, Father Goiffon, Minnesota Territory, News, Picks, Practicing Catholic, Wooden foot | 0 |
A wooden foot.
It’s one of Allison Spies’ favorite objects in the archives of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis — a hand-hewn prosthetic of a pioneer priest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 20, 2021 | Allison Spies, Beautiful petition, Bishop Joseph Cretin, Hypnosis in dentistry, Mesmerism, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
One of Allison Spies’ favorite items in the archdiocese’s Archives and Records collections is “this beautiful petition” from 1846 she first reviewed more than 10 years ago that was written by the chiefs of the Winnebago Nation in Minnesota to a U.S. government agent about their rights. “It’s incredibly poetic and poignant,” Spiess said. “It’s still, to this day, one of the most moving documents here in the archives. It’s a real pleasure to be able to give that a permanent home here in the archives.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | 1941 National Eucharistic Congress, Allison Spies, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, National Eucharistic Revival, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
With Bishop Andrew Cozzens, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, recently detailing a three-year “National Eucharistic Revival” initiative and plans for a large-scale, national event in 2024, Allison Spies joined “Practicing Catholic” radio show host Patrick Conley to describe the National Eucharistic Congress that took place in St. Paul June 22-26, 1941.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2021 | Allison Spies, Bishop Grace, Forgotten bishop of the Diocese of St. Paul, News, Practicing Catholic, Thomas Grace | 0 |
Allison Spies joined “Practicing Catholic” host Patrick Conley for an episode airing May 14 about “the forgotten bishop of the Diocese of St. Paul,” Thomas Grace. Spies is archives program manager for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Allison Spies, Archives, Brady, Cretin, Holy Week/Easter, Local News, News, Triduum | 0 |
Bishop Cretin wrote at a time Minnesota was not a state, and in which the territory had only seven churches, 10 priests and one school, and Masses were celebrated primarily not in English but in French or one of four Native American languages, Spies said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2020 | Allison Spies, Archives, Basilica of St. Mary, History, Local News, News, St. Casimir, World War II | 0 |
It had been St. Casimir’s tradition to leave their impressively large Christmas crib standing in the sanctuary, surrounded with evergreens, until the Feast of the Purification of Mary, on Feb. 2. But this year would prove to be exceptional.
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