Nina Polcyn Moore papers, 1943-1995 (bulk 1945-1967).

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Nina Polcyn Moore papers, 1943-1995 (bulk 1945-1967).

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Correspondence, programs, agendas, announcements, memos, and other papers relating to Chicagoan Nina Polcyn Moore's work with liberal Catholic causes. The collection includes publications, programs, and teaching materials from the Catholic Youth Organization's Sheil School of Social Studies; eulogies and funeral sermons for leaders of Chicago's Catholic community; papers on the founding of the Chicago Conference of Laymen; agendas, correspondence and publications of the National Association of Laymen; and clippings regarding Moore's activities, Chicago Catholic personalities, and the activist laymen's movement.

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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...

Moore, Nina Polcyn.

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Associate director of the Sheil School, Chicago, 1942-1953, and a leader in the Catholic lay apostolate movement. Saint Benet's Book Shop of Chicago (later Saint Benet's Library and Bookshop) was founded by Sara Benedicta O'Neill in 1931. In 1943 its assets were transferred to Bishop Bernard Sheil's Catholic Youth Organization. Nina Polcyn served as manager (1943-1957), bought the shop in 1957, and sold it in 1973. From the description of Papers, 1931-1979. (...

National Association of Laymen.

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Chicago Conference of Laymen.

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Sheil School of Social Studies (Chicago, Ill.)

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Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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Sheil, Bernard J. (Bernard James), 1888-1969

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