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Donation from Rev. Stafford Poole, C.M. Adds Important Titles about the History of Religion, Mexico, and Our Lady of Guadalupe to SPCA Special Collections and Archives (SPCA) had just finished processing a large donation of books from Rev. Stafford Poole, C.M. to the DePaul University Library when the campus transitioned
This month our student assistant, Jade Ryerson (senior history major) is taking over our blog to talk about the important internships she has completed over the past year outside of her work in Special Collections and Archives. From September 2019 to June 2020, I joined the National Park Service (NPS)
Every quarter staff in Special Collections and Archives look forward to welcoming faculty and students to our library classroom to engage with our primary sources and analyze the physical characteristics of rare books, maps, and archival documents. While this physical interaction with collections and each other was not possible during
Decretum Almæ Universitatis Parisiensis. Anno salutis 1626, die XII. Kal. Majas Maturinensi, scribendo adfuerunt rector, Decani, Procuratories, Magistri, Universitas Studiorum. [Paris?]: [Publisher not identified], [1626?] SpC. 273.7 S233tYu1626 The University of Paris, founded in 1150, is the second oldest of the great European medieval universities. Arguably, it became the most
Long before DePaul shifted classes online this quarter due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university was leading the way in remote instruction. In 1958, DePaul awarded one of the nation’s first “online” degrees to Edward J. Fiori, Jr., a student who attended all of his classes remotely. Fiori was an
Saint Vincent’s Reading List: LXXIV The Coronation of Louis XIV. June 25, 1654 Lettre du Roy, A Monseigneur Le Mareschal de l’Hospital, Gouverneur de Paris; Sur son Sacre fait in la Ville de Rheims; Avec commandement de faire chanter le Te Deum en l’Eglise Nostre Dame de sa bonne Ville
Le Tableau de la Croix Representé dans les ceremonies de la Ste. Messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrances de Ntre S.I.C. le tout enrichi de belles figures. A Paris, F. Mazot , ruë St. Denis pres St. SaveurAvec Privilege et Approbation, 1651. SpC. 232.96 T113m1651 It must
National Catholic Sisters Week is celebrated March 8-14th, within the larger month-long spotlight of Women’s History Month, and kicked off by International Women’s Day on March 8th. A 2016 study found that most Americans report positive perceptions of women religious, and a greater number said that their work is
Regle et Constitutions Des Religieuses de l’Ordre de N. Dame du Mont-Carmel, selon la reformation de Saincte Therese. Pour les Monasteres de son Ordre en France. A Lyon Chez Jaques Gavdion En rue Merciere, 1626 SpC. 255.97106 D611r 1626 Bref Discours De L’Abnegation Interieure Par Monsiegneur le Cardinal de Berulle, Superieur general
The First Rainbow Coalition, a new documentary by filmmaker Ray Santisteban, focuses on the 1969 movement in Chicago where “activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated