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The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic Archives in the Digital Age – The Fate of Religious Order Archives

Catholic religious orders hold a unique place in the European settlement of what is now the United States, indeed some of the earliest Catholic colonial settlers came as members of religious orders. The Jesuits, for example, founded in 1534 by the Spanish Ignatius of Loyola, was the first order to send missionaries to propagate the Read More

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