Collection, 1796-1979.

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Collection, 1796-1979.

A few original manuscripts, but chiefly photocopies and transcripts of correspondence and documents concerning the history of the Catholic Church in Kentucky; correspondents include missionary priest Stephen T. Badin and bishops John Baptist David, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, Peter Joseph Lavialle, and William George McCloskey. Portraits of Catholic clergy and religious along with photographs and photomechanical prints of Catholic churches, schools, and other institutions (many from Kentucky), Catholic lay groups, prelates at the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore (1866), and scenes from the Notre Dame campus including buildings, the aftermath of the fire of 1879, and faculty and students; also postcards of Catholic churches and institutions, the Notre Dame campus, and buildings and scenes of local interenst. Religious and commemorative medals. Printed material consisting of pamphlets, periodicals, clippings, catalogs, directories, encyclicals, and pastoral letters; concerning Catholic history (with emphasis on the history of Kentucky), religious orders, priests, bishops, genealogy, and heraldry.

35 medals.53 linear feet of printed material.

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Catholic Church. Plenary Council 1866 : Baltimore, Md)

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Spalding, M. J. (Martin John), 1810-1872

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Clergyman. From the description of M. J. Spalding correspondence, 1866-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980500 ...

Flaget, Benedict Joseph, 1763-1850

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Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown. From the description of Benedict Joseph Flaget papers, 1806-1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 438895408 ...

Badin, Stephen T. (Stephen Theodore), 1768-1853

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Father Badin, the first priest ordained in the United States of America, arrived in South Bend in 1830 and established the St. Joseph Mission on the present site of the University of Notre Dame. From the description of Papers, 1768-1843 (bulk 1830-1846). (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 23012671 From the description of Papers, 1768-1943 (bulk 1830-1846). (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 23032610 ...

University of Notre Dame.

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Clark, Francis P. (Francis Patrick), 1936-1979.

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A native of Kentucky, Francis Clark worked as university microfilmer at Notre Dame; when he died, he left his many collections to the University Archives. From the description of Collection, 1796-1979. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25385828 ...

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...

Catholic Church. Diocese of Bardstown (Ky.)

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On April 8, 1808 the Roman Catholic dioceses of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Bardstown (Ky.) were established. The Kentucy diocese included: "Kentucky, Tennessee, the Territories northwest of Ohio, and extending to the Great Lakes, and which lie between them and the diocese of Canada, and extending along them to the boundary of Pennsylvania ..." (p.308, The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888 by George Pare.) The bull erecting the Detroit Diocese was issued on March 20, 1827. Father Gab...

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Louisville (Ky.)

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Erected in 1808 as the Diocese of Bardstown, a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, with Benedict Joseph Flaget as the first bishop. The see was transferred to Louisville in 1841. From the description of Records, 1808-1961 (bulk 1870-1905). (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25364937 ...

Lavialle, Peter Joseph, 1819-1867.

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David, John Baptist Mary, 1761-1841

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Catholic missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown. From the description of John Baptist Mary David papers, 1811-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 438101415 ...

McCloskey, William George, 1823-1909.

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