Joseph M. Finotti, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS10
The Joseph M. Finotti, SJ Papers contain diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, and scrapbooks.
The Joseph M. Finotti, SJ Papers are on deposit at Georgetown University and are the property of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. As stewards of the Archives, the Georgetown University Library’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections is responsible for managing access to the material based on policies set forth by the USA East Province. Researchers may view these materials in the Reading Room of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. General policies for using Special Collections can be found here.
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Giuseppe or Joseph M. Finotti, SJ (1817-1879) was born in Ferrara, Italy, to Francesco Maria (1779-1857) and Rosina Tassinari Finotti (1783-1837). In 1833 he entered the Society of Jesus before he was brought to the US by Fr. James Ryder in 1845. He was at Georgetown University (1846-1847, 1849), Frederick (1848, 1850), and St. Mary's in Alexandria (1851-1852) before leaving the order; he remained, however, a diocesan priest. He went to Massachusetts and was stationed at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Boston, 1853-1856), St. Mary of the Assumption (Brookline, 1857-1872), and St. Malachi's (Arlington, 1874-1876). In 1877 he traveled to Colorado and was pastor of the Church of St. Patrick (Central City, 1877-1879).
Fr. Finotti was a staff member (1852-1858) and then literary editor (1858-1877) of The Pilot as well as compiler of the Bibliographia Catholica Americana (1872). He died in 1879.
1.6 Cubic Feet (4 boxes)
English
Italian
May have been in the possession of John Gilmary Shea before his death in 1892 and later donated to Georgetown University by his wife (Isabel) in 1893 (see the John Gilmary Shea Papers box 24 folder 4 for correspondence between Isabel and J. Havens Richards, 3 June 1893)
The collection was previously part of the University Archives (prior to 1970).
This collection was rehoused into acid-free boxes and folders in April 2024.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository