Collection, 1817-1952.

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Collection, 1817-1952.

Correspondence, including original letters and photostats from the Archdiocesan Archives of Boston and the National Archives. Correspondents include missionary priests Stephen Theodore Badin and John Thayer; Jean Lefebvre de Cheverus, first bishop of Boston, and Benedict Joseph Fenwick, second bishop of Boston; and Joseph M. Finotti, collector of Catholic Americana. Also records of the Tabernacle Society of the Convent of Notre-Dame, Berkeley Street, Boston (1898-1906) consisting of correspondence of Lillian Westervelt concerning vestments for churches and priests throughout New England; material concerning Bishop David William Bacon of Portland, Maine; clippings, articles, pamphlets, and pictures.

2.5 linear inches.

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Tabernacle Society, Notre Dame Convent (Boston, Mass.)

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Westervelt, Lillian.

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Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.)

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Established in 1808 as a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, it included all of New England until 1875, when it became an archdiocese with metropolitan authority over other dioceses in the province of New England. From the description of Collection, 1817-1952. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 24988042 ...

Bacon, David William, 1815-1874.

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Fenwick, Benedict Joseph, 1782-1846

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Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Boston from 1825 to 1844. From the description of Clipped signature : Boston, 18-- (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122599381 ...

Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor JoseĢ Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...

Finotti, Joseph M. (Joseph Maria), 1817-1879

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Catholic priest, literary editor of The Pilot (Boston), 1852-1877, and compiler of Bibliographia Catholica Americana (1872). From the description of Papers, 1844-1881. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 24855873 Roman Catholic clergyman and journalist. From the description of Joseph M. Finotti correspondence, 1866-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450252 Joseph M. Finotti was born in Ferrara, Italy, on Sept. 21, 1817. He entered the Soc...

Badin, Stephen T. 1768-1853.

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Cheverus, Jean-Louis-Anne-Madeleine Lefebvre de, 1768-1836.

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