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Congregatio de Propaganda Fide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-980301
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...
Dates: 1723 - 1746

Carina Benjamin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-661214
Content Description

Letters written to the Countess Rachele Maria Carolina Toussaint de St. Seigne (b.1875 - d.1954). Correspondents include Amleto Giovanni, Cicognani Elia Cardinal Dalla Costa, Giovanni Battista Montini (Pope Paul VI), Francis Cardinal Spellman, and Domenico Tardini.

See External Documents below for folder list. Added folder #11 contains biographical information re Mary A. Benjamin and Walter R. Benjamin.

Dates: 1937-1953

Gozos Devotional Broadsides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection. The collection consists of gozos (also known as gosos or goigs) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1776 to 1982. Many of the gozos relate to Mary, mother of Jesus.It...
Dates: 1776 - 1982

Leopoldo Duran papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-110727
Collection-level Scope and Contents note Correspondence from Graham Greene to Leopoldo Duran (1964-1990). Includes correspondence from Vivien Greene, Hugh Greene (brother) and Elizabeth Dennys (sister). Of note is a common place book containing autograph entries by Greene. A gift from Duran whose intention was for Greene to jot down notes about his readings and thoughts. Nicknamed "the Picasso" by Duran who conceived the idea after a visit to the Picasso Museum in Antibes. Additionally, the collection includes autograph diaries...
Dates: 1960-2008

John F. Long, S.J. Archive

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Identifier: WTL-0002
Scope and Contents The John F. Long, S.J. Archive contains the papers of this leading Catholic expert on the Russian Orthodox Church, long-time staff member of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (since 1988, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity), and participant in the Second Vatican Council. Long took part in numerous meetings with representatives of the Orthodox churches as well as the Ancient Oriental churches such as the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian, but with a specific mastery...
Dates: 1916 - 2005

Gerard Mannion Papers

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Identifier: GTM-20220623
Scope and Contents The collections contains the papers of Catholic scholar Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), who served as a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University from 2004 until his death in 2019. The collection includes materials from his studies at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as his teaching materials from Georgetown University, the University of Tubingen, Liverpool Hope University, the University of Leeds, and San Diego University. Many of Mannion's research...
Dates: 1987 - 2019