Scope and Contents Records of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide comprise this collection of letter copy-books and related manuscripts which shed important light on Catholic missionary activities in China, the Philippines, and South Asia in the first half of the 18th century.The principal Jesuit interest in the collection resides in the record of the ongoing dispute over the Chinese Rites and repeated attempts to obtain unconditional obedience from the Jesuits. Letters to the head of the...

Content Description The collection conists of the transcriptions and annotations made of the Journals of Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. by Karl and Nicole Schmitz-Moorman. Hand-written on French school copybooks, known as cahiers, the Journal that Father Teilhard began in August 1919 "to while away the boredom of quartering and to oblige [him] to think, to observe and to clarify" shows a gap between July 1925 and July 1944, and it ends three days before his death in April 1955. In March 1946, when he had...

Scope and Contents The Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus covers the period from 1630-2004; the bulk of the materials date from 1800-1875. The collection documents the establishment of the Jesuit order, and of the Catholic Church more broadly, in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Also referred to as the Maryland Province Archives (MPA), it consists of the organizational records and papers of the Province in its various iterations: the Mission of Maryland (1634-1773), the...

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Minuta: Long (ex notulis Exc.mi Secretarii, P.Long, P.Stransky, D.Salzmann). Presentes: Card. Bea, Heenan, Martin; Exc.mi Hermaniuk, Rabban, Ramanantoanina, Mansourati, Cantero, Raymond, Charriere, De Smedt, Nierman, Hart, Van Velsen, Lamont, Helmsing, Primeau, Gran, Stangl, Lorscheider, Prinetto, Minisci, Willebrands (secretarius). Feria IV, V, VI; 12, 13, 14 maii 1965 [ Document in Latin, French, German and English. ] 23 pp.

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Minuta: Long (ex notulis Exc.mi Secretarii, P.Long, P.Stransky, D.Salzmann). Presentes: Card. Bea, Heenan, Martin; Exc.mi Hermaniuk, Rabban, Ramanantoanina, Mansourati, Cantero, Raymond, Charriere, De Smedt, Nierman, Hart, Van Velsen, Lamont, Helmsing, Primeau, Gran, Stangl, Lorscheider, Prinetto, Minisci, Willebrands (secretarius). Feria IV, V, VI; 12, 13, 14 maii 1965 [ Document in Latin, French, German and English. ] 23 pp.

Scope and Contents Materie divers. M.S. (shelfmark CCXLIII)1 bound volume of manuscripts, reports, letter copies, and printed matter. These include an unpublished biography of Confucius, "Vita Confusii Philosophi Apud Sinensis Sapientissimi ac Sanctissimi Magistri", by the Franciscan missionary Fr. Carolus Horatii á Castorano (Carlo Orazi da Castorano), OFM, a significant opponent of the Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy, as well as a report of Jesuit martyrdom in Vietnam, "Relazione della...

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Correspondence on numerous subjects (the Woodstock library, the natural history museum, lost books, province activities etc.).

Content Description From the Collection: The papers of Charles Augustus Strong (1862-1940), American psychologist and philosopher, comprise materials, in addition to Strong's library, transferred from various locations including the Villa La Balze in Fiesole, Italy and the Georgetown University Office of International Programs. All of the material in the collection originated at the Villa, where it had been gathered by the time of Strong's death. The papers include letters, manuscripts, published material, and photographs, arranged...

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Notes on saints

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I contains the working files of John Long from the meetings of Vatican II, the subsequent meetings of the SPCU during Long's time as a staff member, and Long's files after his retirement in 1980 as he continued to serve the Secretariat as a consultor. The series has been divided further into three sub-series: sub-series A including Long's files related to his work in the Second Vatican Council; sub-series B including his files documenting internal meetings of the SPCU from his time as...

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Contains material related to Jesuit missions in the Philippines, photos, yearbooks, scrapbooks, newsprint, correspondence, postcards, etc. Much of the material is related to the Ateneo de Manila, but also includes notes from a Jesuit in an Japanese internment camp during World War II.