Before that, Catholics were buried in the Strangers' Burial Ground, a potter's field now used as Washington Square park.

[5] Eventually other parish churchyards at St. Mary's, Holy Trinity, and St. Augustine were used for the burials of Catholics.

[7] It was established to support burials due to the influx of Catholic immigrants to Philadelphia from Ireland and Germany.

[11] As attendance increased, the congregation name was changed and the Our Mother of Sorrows church was built in 1870.

On Veterans Day in 2002, a memorial to the members of the regiment was installed by an American Civil War reenactment group from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.