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    Lamp and bell used to signify that the Blessed Sacrament was being carried from the Church to the home of the sick for Viaticum. (Specifically for outdoor use hence the hurricane glass). c. 1920.

    Death Mask of Most Rev. Fergus McEvay. Death masks are typically plaster casts of a person's face taken after death. Before the invention of photography, they were often created as mementoes of the deceased, or as a reference for portraiture. Masks of unknown corpses were also made to help with ...

    Ornate brass crozier made of four assembled parts.

    Thurible, silver, C 1880's

    Boat with spoon, silver; (boat-shaped vessel which holds incense before it is put into a thurible. c 1880's.

   

    This group of images are from the Historical Parish Registers for St. Paul's Basilica, Toronto. They cover baptisms and some marriages for the years 1834-1910. Also included is the Burial Register for St. Paul's Cemetery which covers the years 1847-1849. In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not ...

   

    The Holy Bible (Family Bible). Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company. (Appropriation of Archbishop James F. Wood of Philadelphia).

    Pages for recording family births

    The Holy Matrimony page in this Family bible is where the marriage of the family's Matriarch and Patriarch would have been recorded.

    As with this family bible, most will have space to record family marriages and deaths.

    It is perhaps unnecessary to state that nurses' work is very serious, sometimes meaning the difference between life and death. From time to time, however, they have had to deal with certain policies that some may find odd. But rules are rules! Dr. O'Reilly at the Toronto General Hospital made ...

    The first graduating class, which was in 1894 after two years of study, consisted of seven students. The number of graduates increased yearly. In 1929, 53 students were honoured at the graduation ceremony

    Cardinal McGuigan was pleased to help Miss Mitchell and provided her with a directory that included contact information for clergy in all districts. One reason the Cardinal may have been so accommodating is due to personal experience. In his introduction of Cardinal McGuigan at the 1946 Congress of the Catholic ...

    Jean A. Mitchell, Director of Special Registration District 5 of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, wrote to then-Archbishop McGuigan asking his permission to send a letter to clergy in the district requesting that all graduate nurses register with the Provincial Civilian Defense Committee in case their services are needed ...

    The Sisters of St. Joseph founded St. Michael's Hospital in 1892. Until 1974, when nursing programs began to be offered at community colleges, students were trained at the hospital's Training School for Nurses. Students attended classes and lectures regularly.

    These documents highlight a group of strong, caring, and dedicated women: Nurses. As the large majority of our records are about cardinals, archbishops, and priests, there is, unfortunately, a dearth of material about women in our collections. That being said, these men had sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins, and friends, some ...

    Margaret C. Macdonald was a Canadian nurse who, during her thirty-year career, served in the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. When war was declared in 1914, Macdonald was appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) and became the first woman promoted to the ...

    "A year of happy, joyous days, With hopes fulfilled and dreams come true, And all the best that life can send, That is my Easter Wish For You!"