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Gleanings of Fifty Years: The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary in the Northwest 1859-1909

  • 1909 230p IL (F) $27.00  #70470
In the Early Days: Pages from the Annals of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary–St. Joseph's Convent, Mount Carmel, Dubuque, Iowa 1833-1887
  • 1925 367p IL Bi(F/P)Pg(G/F) $27.00  #70188
Rules of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul & Indulgences Granted by the Sovereign Pontiffs
  • 1924 242p (G/F) $7.00  #80585
  • 1896 175p (F) $6.00  #1467
  • 1924 242p Bi(F)Pg(G) $7.00  #1466
Ursulines, The
Aron, Marguerite / Mother M. Angela Griffin, OSU, tr.
  • 1947 208p Bi(F)Pg(G) $12.00  #3048
He Sent Two: The Story of the Beginning of the School Sisters of St. Francis
Borgia, Sr M. Francis, OSF
  • 1965 224p IL (G/F) $17.00  #81763
Beyond All Horizons: Jesuits & the Missions
[13 prominent Catholics paint a picture of Jesuit missionary activity over 4 centuries]

Burke, Thomas J. M., SJ, ed. / Anne Fremantle, preface by
  • 1957 288p (G/G/F) $9.00  #8184
  • 1957 288p (F) $5.00  #8187
  • 1957 288p (G/F) $8.00  #8185
Symbolized by a Shrine: The Story of the Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor
Burns, Katherine
  • 1955 271p Bi(F)Pg(G) $19.00  #81507
Bernardines, The
[origin & growth of the Bernadine sisterhood in the US beginning in 1894]

Burton, Katherine
  • 1964 229p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $22.00  #60594
Cry Jubilee!
[Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Allegany, NY]

Burton, Katherine
  • 1960 227p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $28.00  #81762
Make the Way Known: History of Dominican Congregation of St Mary of the Springs (1822-1957)
Burton, Katherine
  • 1959 291p (F) $7.00  #8350
With God and Two Ducats: Corpus Christi Carmelites in Three Countries 1908-1958
[a community whose small group were English converts influenced by Newman & the Oxford Movement; active & not cloistered]

Burton, Katherine
  • 1958 214p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $21.00  #87789
Segregavit Nos Dominus
[an English book on the Felician Sisters' foundation, spirit & Marian charater of reparation]

Cegielka, Fr Francis A.
  • 1963 102p Bi(F)Pg(G) $22.00  #81635
Salesian Society, The
[Foundation-Organization-Expansion] [traces & explains the remarkable growth of this world-wide religious community]

Ceria, Fr Eugene, SDB / Joseph G. E. Hopkins, revised by
  • 1955 67p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $9.00  #9878
History of the Society of Jesus Vol 1: 1522-1652
Clements, James
  • 1878 399p (2nd rev. ed.) Bi(P)Pg(G) $10.00  #10983
Divine Model, The: A Method of Imitating Jesus Christ – The Plan & the Practice
[Redemptorist method of becoming a perfect imitator of Christ]

Colin, Fr Louis, CSSR / Fr. Philip Roets CSSR, tr. / Fr. William F. Cummings, CSSR, ed
  • 1958 136p Bi(F)Pg(G/F) $12.00  #80897
Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, The
Concilium Legionis Mariae
  • 1941 295p (2nd American ed) IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $11.00  #57084
  • 1949 296p (5th American ed) IL (G/F) $11.00  #61111
  • 1962 348p (11th American ed) IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $11.00  #55919
  • 1944 296p (3rd American ed) IL (F) $9.00  #56018
  • 1955 348p (7th American ed) IL (G/F) $12.00  #81292
  • 1969 288p (new & revised) IL (F) $7.00  #81248
  • 1953 348p (6th American ed) IL (G/F) some dogeared pages $11.00  #70071
  • 1957 348p (8th American ed) IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $11.00  #80604
  • 1959 348p (9th American ed) IL (G/F) $12.00  #11478
  • 1953 348p (6th American ed) IL (G/F) $12.00  #11477
  • 1965 336p (11th American ed) IL (G/F) $11.00  #11480
  • 1985 292p IL (new & revised ed) (VG/G) $11.00  #11482
  • 1965 336p (11th American ed) IL (G) $13.00  #11479
  • 1965 336p (11th American ed) IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $10.00  #11481
Brothers of the Christian Schools During the War 1870-71, The
D'Arsac, J.
  • 1873 415p IL (P) $14.00  #13159
Jesuit in Focus, The
[its spirit, work, persecution, suppression, relation with other societies within the Church, etc.]

Daly, Lowrie J., SJ
  • 1940 212p (G/G/F) $6.00  #13298
  • 1940 212p Bi(F)Pg(G) $5.00  #13299
Religious Orders of Women in the United States: Accounts of Their Origin and of Their Most Important Institutions
Dehey, Elinor Tong / Bp Joseph Schrembs, intro by
  • 1913 366p (1st ed) IL Bi(P)Pg(G/F) needs rebinding $45.00  #71087
  • 1930 908p (2nd ed. revised) IL Bi(P)Pg(G/F) partially detached binding/some detached pages $50.00  #81759
Grey Nuns in the Far North, The (1867-1917)
Duchaussois, Fr. P., OMI
  • 1919 287p IL (P) needs rebinding $20.00  #70727
Generation of Giants: Jesuits in China in Last Decades of the Ming Dynasty
[how the Jesuits spread the Faith in 16th century China]

Dunne, Fr George H., SJ
  • 1962 389p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $7.00  #16871
  • 1962 389p IL (G/F) $8.00  #16870
Compte-Rendu du Premier Congres de la Federation Mondiale des Congregations Mariales / Report of the First Congress of the Sodalities World Federation
[French & English texts of the congress with some German, Spanish, etc talks as well: Rome: Sept. 8-12, 1954]

Editio Foederationis Mundialis Congregationum Marianarum
  • 1955 175p IL in-house hard-board binding (F) $15.00  #17164
Notre Dame Du Cenacle: Our Lady of the Cenacle, or, of the Retreat
[religious institution founded in France early in the 19th cen. by Fr Terme & Mother Therese Couderc, devouted to retreat work]

Felix, Fr,, SJ / Miss Deak, tr
  • 1896 183p pb Bi(P)Pg(F) $17.00  #70832
Jesuits!
Féval, Paul / T. F. Galwey, tr.
  • 1879 348p (from 10th French ed.) Bi(F/P)Pg(G) $11.00  #18457
Jesuits of the Middle United States, The
[in 3 vols]

Garraghan, Fr Gilbert J., SJ
  • 1938 IL rebound (G/F/F) $26.00  #20219
  • 1938 IL (G/F) $34.00  #60359
Message of St. Francis, The
[companion volume to "The Franciscan Message to the World"]

Gemelli, Fr Agostino, OFM / Paul J. Oligny, OFM, tr.
  • 1963 197p Bi(F)Pg(G) $15.00  #80837
Friends of Wales
[popular account of St. Francis & the Order he founded & how the Friars worked & died as shepherds of their flock in Wales]

Gillespie, Kenneth, OFM
  • 1957 77p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $12.00  #21143
We Came North: Centennial Story of Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth
[shows how these sisters shaped the west]

Gilmore, Sr Julia, SCL
  • 1961 538p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $12.00  #21225
Our Feast Days: Meditations on the Saints & Blessed of the Capuchin Order
Gumbinger, Fr Cuthbert, OFM Cap.
  • 1945 142p (E) $20.00  #23059
Manual of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[its rules, prayers before Council meeting & election of officers, many other prayers of interest to the sodality]

H. L. Kilner, & Co, publ.
  • 1922 134p 30th ed / pocket size Bi(F/P)Pg(G/F) $18.00  #55858
Fraternalism in Action: History of the Catholic Order of Foresters
Heaney, Thomas R.
  • 1952 76p IL pb Bi(F)Pg(G) $15.00  #23965
Sulpicians in the United States, The
[their beginnings under Archbp Carroll to their founding of many eductional institutions in the US]

Herbermann, Charles G.
  • 1916 360p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $14.00  #24265
  • 1916 360p IL Bi(F/P)Pg(G/F) $10.00  #81126
Wheel of Time, The (brief survey of the ninety-six years' work of the Sisters of Mercy in Victoria, 1857-1953)
Ignatius, Sr M.
  • 1954 384p IL (G/F) $29.00  #70493
Benedictine Bibliography, A: An Author-Subject Union List
[in 2 vols]

Kapsner, Fr Oliver L., OSB, ed. / Anselmo M. Cardinal Albareda, OSB, foreword by
  • 1962 (2nd ed) Bi(F)Pg(G) $32.00  #81304
Holy Family Sisters of San Francisco, The: A Sketch of Their First Fifty Years (1872-1922)
Kavanagh, Fr. D. J., SJ
  • 1922 322p IL Bi(F/P)Pg(G/F) $18.00  #81764
Men of Maryknoll
[10 stories of Maryknollers & their adventures in the Pacific during the 1st part of WW II]

Keller, James & Meyer Berger
  • 1943 191p (G) $8.00  #27483
  • 1943 191p (G/F) $7.00  #27484
  • 1944 191p Bi(F)Pg(G) $6.00  #27485
White Fathers, The
[the story of missionaries to Africa who ended slavery, ignorance & fear]

Kittler, Glenn D.
  • 1957 299p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $6.00  #28326
  • 1957 299p IL Bi(F)Pg(G/F) $5.00  #28328
  • 1961 [1957 1st hb ed] 318p pb Bi(F)Pg(G) $2.00  #28329
  • 1957 299p IL Bi(F/F/P)Pg(G) $5.00  #28327
White Fathers, The
[the story of missionaries to Africa who ended slavery, ignorance & fear]

Kittler, Glenn D. / Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa, intro by
  • 1961 [1957 1st hb ed] 318p pb Bi(F)Pg(G) $2.00  #28332
Spiritans, The: History of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost
Koren, Henry J., CSSp
  • 1958 641p IL (G) $38.00  #28809
Better a Day
[stirring life stories of 15 Jesuit brothers, each helping to build up the Order: Bro Nicholas Owen, maker of priest hiding places during the 17th cent. English persecutions; Bro Schroen, painter of murals for the Jamaican cathedral, etc]

Leary, John P., SJ, ed.
  • 1951 341p Bi(F)Pg(G) $14.00  #59890
I Lift My Lamp: Jesuits in America
[stories of 16 Jesuits: Frs. Baptista Segura, Isaac Jogues, Andrew White, James Marquette, Eusebio Kino, etc.]

Leary, John P., SJ, ed.
  • 1955 383p (F) $8.00  #29908
Marianist Year, The: Feast Day Meditations in the Society of Mary
Lebon, Fr Henri, SM / Fr Peter A. Resche, SM, tr.
  • 1946 233p (G/F) $30.00  #81654
Wisdom of the Poverello
[the wisdom of St. Francis & his order]

Leclerc, Eloi, OFM / Marie-Louise Johnson, tr.
  • 1961 126p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $18.00  #61373
White Monks, The: History of the Cistercian Order
Lekai, S.O.Cist., Louis J.
  • 1953 360p IL (G/F) $45.00  #30455
Origins of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, The
Lesage, Fr. Germain, OMI / Bp. Albertus Martin, preface by / Sr. Marie Janelle, tr.
  • 1982 241p [trans from 1957 French ed] IL pb (F) $14.00  #70469
Religious of Notre Dame de Sion and Their Work, The
Letouzey & Ane, publ.
  • 1922 153p IL pb (F/P) $23.00  #70478
Jesuits, The: A Self-Portrait
Lippert, Peter
  • 1958 131p (E) $8.00  #31172
Men in Sandals
[Discalced Carmelites: in a lighthearted way gives a serious look at their unusual way of life]

Madden, Fr. Richard, OCD
  • 1957 [4th printing] 154p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $17.00  #32340
  • 1954 154p IL Bi(F/F/P)Pg(G) $14.00  #32341
  • 1954 154p IL (G/F) $19.00  #61072
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in the United States 1865-1926
Maol-Iosa
  • 1927 228p IL Bi(F/F/P)Pg(G) $17.00  #32762
  • 1927 228p IL (G/F) $22.00  #32763
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, The: Le Puy, Lyons, St. Louis, Toronto
Mary Agnes, Sr., CSJ
  • 1951 225p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $29.00  #70183
Willamette Interlude
[Foundation of the Srs of N.D. de Namur, Willamette Valley, Oregon, 1844]

Mary Dominica, Sr, SND de N
  • 1959 302p Bi(F)Pg(G) $7.00  #33873
Canticle for the Harvest
[anecdotes of the pioneering School Sisters of Notre Dame in America during their 1st hundred years]

Mary Hester, Sr, SSND
  • 1951 196p Bi(F)Pg(G) $6.00  #33920
  • 1951 196p (G/F) $7.00  #33919
Franciscans, The
Masseron, Alexandre / Warre B. Wells, tr.
  • 1932 233p Bi(F)Pg(G) $11.00  #34163
Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States
[nearly every order & congregation of convents within the USA, 300 sisterhoods, photos of members of each community in their distinctive habits]

McCarthy, Fr Thomas P., CSV / foreword by Archbp Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
  • 1953 319p (2nd printing of 1st ed) IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $110.00  #34677
  • 1955 367p (3rd ed) IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $110.00  #81767
Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States
[nearly every order & congregation of convents within the USA, 300 sisterhoods, photos of members of each community in their distinctive habits]

McCarthy, Fr Thomas P., CSV / foreword by Card. Cicognani / intro by Archbp Egidio Vagnozzi
  • 1964 404p (5th ed) IL pb (F) $85.00  #81684
Trappist Writes Home, A: Letters to His Family
[1st abbot of the Trappist monastery at Pifford, NY: 1906-1955]

McGinley, Abbot Gerard, OCSO
  • 1960 175p IL (G/F) $9.00  #35000
  • 1960 175p IL (G/F) some bent pages $8.00  #70068
  • 1960 175p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $7.00  #81363
Teaching of Mary Aikenhead, The: Selections from the "Life & Work"
Member of her Congregation, by a
  • 1925 156p (F) $9.00  #35714
Spirit of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, The
Murphy, Charles K. / Archbp. Finbar Ryan, preface by
  • 1940 208p (G/F) $9.00  #37532
Meaning of Maryknoll, The: Illustrated with Photographs
Nevins, Albert J.
  • 1954 344p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $10.00  #80039
  • 1955 344p IL (G/F) $11.00  #81632
Tyburn Hill of Glory: Being the Story of the Benedictine Adorers of the Sacred Heart & Their Foundress Mother Mary of St. Peter
[Marie Adele Garnier] [Bl. Dom Columba Marmion began directing her soul in 1908: 1838-1924]

Nuns of Tyburn Convent
  • 1952 167p IL (F) $26.00  #70454
Survey of a Decade: Third Order Secular of St. Francis in the United States
[includes notes & acts of the 2nd & 3rd national congresses: 1926 NY, NY Oct 3-5; 1931 San Francisco: Aug 9-11]

Poppy, Fr Maximus, OFM, & Paul R. Martin / Most Rev Amleto Cicognani, preface by
  • 1935 866p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $25.00  #42046
Maryknoll Movement, The
[Popular sketch of the origin (1918), growth & present status of Maryknoll]

Powers, Fr George C.
  • 1926 167p IL Bi(F/P)Pg(G) $6.00  #42210
Crosier Story, The: History of the Crosier Fathers in the United States
Rausch, Jerome W., OSC
  • 1960 384p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $19.00  #42899
Burnt Out Incense: The Saga of Citeaux (American Epoch)
[the moving history of the establishment of Trappist monastery at Gethsemani, KY in 1948 to modern times (1948)]

Raymond, Fr M., OCSO
  • 1949 457p Bi(F)Pg(G) $20.00  #42939
Three Religious Rebels: The Saga of Citeaux-Forefathers of the Trappists
[First Epoch] [the founding of the Cistercians: St Robert, St Alberic & St Stephen Harding]

Raymond, Fr M., OCSO
  • 1944 326p Bi(F)Pg(G) $33.00  #61218
Battle and Brother Louis, The
[daily life of a teaching brother of the Society of Mary]

Reile, Bro Louis, SM / foreword by Richard Cardinal Cushing
  • 1959 171p Bi(G/F)Pg(G) $15.00  #43177
La Trappe in England: Chronicles of an Unknown Monastery
[background of the Cistercian Order & its modern English beginnings at Stapehill (1802) & Cistercian life today]

Religious of the Holy Cross Abbey, by a / Fr Dominic Devas, OFM, foreword by
  • 1946 224p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $24.00  #43268
Jesuits Under Fire in the Siege of Hong Kong, 1941
Ryan, Thomas F., SJ
  • 1944 188p (G/F) $10.00  #44854
School of the Lord's Service, The: Meditation, Particular Examen, & Practical Application for Every Day of the year, Based on the Rule of St. Benedict
[in 3 vols]

Sause, Rev. Bernard A., OSB
  • 1948-'51 w/ text of St. Benedict Rule Bi(F)Pg(G) $75.00  #45245
Century's Harvest Gathered by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in the United States, The: 1836-1937
[the provinces of St Louis, MO, St Paul, MO, Troy, NY, Los Angeles, CA & Augusta, GA]

Savage, Sr Mary Lucida, compiler
  • 1936 254p IL (F) $37.00  #70730
Danish Mission and Province, The: 1856-1885
Sister of St. Joseph of Chambery, compiled by a / a Sister of St. Joseph, tr.
  • 1938 134p IL Bi(F)Pg(G) $13.00  #47433
L'Institut de la Providence: Histoire des Filles de la Charite Servantes des Pauvres dites Soeurs de la Providence
[4 vols]

Sœurs de la Providence
  • [Vol 1 only] [Preliminaires et Fondation 1800-1844] 1925 567p pb (broché) Bi(F)Pg(G) $15.00  #47863
Parish Visitor Catechist, The: Conferences to the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate
Tallon, Mother Mary Teresa
  • 1930 280p Bi(F)Pg(G) $14.00  #49127
Early Franciscan Classics
["Vita Prima" of Thomas of Celano, etc.]

Thomas of Celano et al / Franciscan Fathers of the Province of St. Barbara, trs.
  • 1962 275p Bi(F/P)Pg(G) $7.00  #50574
Footprints on the Frontier: A History of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Concordia, Kansas
Thomas, Sr M. Evangeline
  • 1948 400p IL Bi(F/F/P)Pg(G/G/F) $22.00  #55951
Concerning Jesuits
Various authors / Catholic Truth Society, publ
  • 1902 253p (F) $15.00  #52430
Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul to the Sisters of Charity, The
[addressed to the Sisters between 1634 and 1660 on the principles of the spiritual life as applied to their daily life] [Vol 1: conferences 1-32: the vocation of a Daughter of Charity, explanation of the rule, faults & failings, etc]

Vincent de Paul, St / Fr Joseph Leonard, CM, tr.
  • 1938 322p vol 1 only [missing vols 2-4] Bi(F)Pg(G) $12.00  #52956
Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul to the Sisters of Charity, The
[addressed to the Sisters between 1634 and 1660 on the principles of the spiritual life as applied to their daily life] [Vol 2: conferences 33-60: envy, spirit of the world, the love of work, admonitions, etc]

Vincent de Paul, St / Fr Joseph Leonard, CM, tr.
  • 1938 310p vol 2 only [missing vols 1, 3, 4] Bi(F)Pg(G) $12.00  #52957
Formation of a Lay Apostle, The
[A Lay Apostle: Who, What & Where; Spiritual Direction of the Lay Apostle; Some of the Problems of the Lay Apostle; Our Lady Queen of Apostles, etc]

Wendell, Francis N., OP
  • 1954 100p (F) $13.00  #80597
General Examination / Summary of Bulls
[examination for those seeking admission into the Jesuits; 4 Bulls: Popes Julius III, Gregory XIII, Pius VII, Leo XIII]

Xavier Press, publ.
  • 1951 53p (F) $10.00  #55317
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