Collection-level Scope and Content Note

This is a collection of late seventeenth-century Latin letters relating to the Church and especially to the Society of Jesus, all bound into one volume. Among other places, they emanate from or discuss Genoa, the South Pacific, the Philippines, Lisbon, Austria, the Balkans, Japan,China, Indochina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Mexico.

Scope and Contents Brochure published by Medical Center with text of of 4 lectures: "Sources of the Jesuit Tradition: A History with a Future" by John W. Padberg, S.J., fall 1992; "The Jesuit Tradition and the First Hundred Years of Medicine at Georgetown: From Sundown College to Medical Center" by R. Emmett Curran, S.J., spring 1993; "Stethoscope for Divine Murmurs: Modern Psychiatry and the Jesuits" by Edwin H. Cassem, S.J., fall 1993; and "Biblical Justice and 'The Cry of the Poor: Jesuit Medicine and the...