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Help us expand our reach! Please share this article on social media On Aug. 28, 1918, an outbreak of influenza was detected aboard a receiving ship at Boston's Commonwealth Pier. "Unless precautions are taken," wrote Dr. John S. Hitchcock of the Massachusetts Department of Health, "the disease in all probability will spread to the civilian population of the city." Despite the department's swift actions to contain the disease, it spread like wildfire, first through the maritime population and, by mid-September, to civilians. In an effort to minimize the spread of the disease, state and city of...

Related Reading St. Patrick's Day, or the feast of St. Patrick, takes place annually on March 17. It is a day to celebrate Irish culture and to commemorate the life of St. Patrick, bishop of Ireland. Across the country and around the world, people mark the holiday with traditional foods, such as corned beef and cabbage, parades, and the wearing of green attire and shamrocks. Here in the Archdiocese of Boston, the holiday is a special one, not only because of the large number of Irish-Americans living in the archdiocese but also because St. Patrick is our patron saint. On Oct. 15, 1991, Pope J...

The Archive Department is pleased to announce a new Parish Boundary Map Tool. It is a digital map of the Archdiocese of Boston, which features parish churches and boundaries. Each territorial parish church is represented by a dot whose corresponding boundary is shaded in a matching color, while the personal, or national, parish churches are represented by black dots. It is a depiction of the archdiocese ca. 1955, when a concerted effort was made to compile parish boundary information, and a reflection of the archdiocese at its approximate height in terms of number of parishes. The tool allows...

Help us expand our reach! Please share this article on social media On Dec. 30, 1840, John M. Hopkins, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, penned a letter to Bishop Benedict J. Fenwick of the Diocese of Boston. The subject of the letter was the proposed construction of a new Catholic church in Burlington, Vermont. "I call your attention," he wrote, "to a matter which I think important to the comfort and satisfaction of the Roman Catholic Church in this village, as well as the Church which is under my own pastoral care." At the time the letter was written, the Catholic Dioce...