Donald C. Reilly, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-851231
The Donald C. Reilly, SJ Papers include biographical information, certificates and authorizations, his 1938 Loyola High School yearbook, a diary from a 1974 trip to Mexico, photographs, an article titled "The Priest and Christ-Like Charity," and his school transcript.
The Donald C. Reilly, 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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Donald C. Reilly (1920-1985) was born in Washington, DC, to parents Joseph M. (1881-1945) and Mary T. (Reilly) Reilly (1882-1966; m. 1907) alongside his six brothers and one sister. The family moved to Baltimore by 1930, where Reilly attended Loyola High School (1934-1938). He then entered the Society of Jesus at Wernersville and, after completing his novitiate and juniorate there (1938-1942), he had his philosophical studies at Woodstock College... (1943-1945). His regency was at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School (1946-1948) and his theology was spent again at Woodstock (1949-1952) where he was ordained in 1951. After Fr. Reilly’s tertianship at Our Lady of Martyrs (Auriesville, 1953), he was on the faculty at Georgetown Preparatory School (1954-1959).
Next he was director of temporal affairs for the Jesuit community (1960-1964) and then director of admissions (1965-1966) at the University of Scranton and was the founding superior of Farmer House at St. Joseph’s College (1966-1967). He was subsequently stationed at St. Joseph’s Prep once more where he was rector (1967-1969) before completing some post-graduate studies in theology at Marquette University (1970) and returning to St. Joseph’s to teach for one year (1971). For the remainder of his life, Fr. Reilly was part of the campus ministry staff and classics department at Georgetown University (1972-1985).
0.2 Cubic Feet (7 folders)
English
Latin
Likely transferred from the Georgetown University Jesuit residence after his death in 1985.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository