Society of Jesus

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...

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.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note Shandelle was born in Germany in 1848, and brought as a child to Baltimore. He received the customary Jesuit education of the Maryland-New York Province, and spent most of his career teaching: at Boston College,Loyola in Baltimore, Holy Cross in Worcester, and at Georgetown. He served as librarian of Georgetown and was known as a lover of books, the classics especially. He wrote Latin well and was assigned the task of writing official university responses in that languages when they were...