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Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky Records

NAZ Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky Records 1782-1977
Origination : Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky
Extent : 10 reels of microfilm
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Preferred Citation

Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky Records (NAZ), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Letters, manuscripts, and typewritten transcripts of letter books and manuscripts (1809-1976); minutes of governing boards and officers of Bardstown, Kentucky (1782-1826), Washington County, Kentucky (1789-1807), and Nazareth, Kentucky (1830-1932); sacramental records, annals, lists, biographical sketches, and historical sketches; and translations of documents from the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in the Vatican; with information on Ignatius A. Reynolds, Francis Chambige, Michael M. Coghlan, and Thomas Bouchet; St. Thomas Orphanage and St. Vincent's Infirmary; slaves; and the service of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in the Civil War.

Correspondents include Sisters of Nazareth such as Mothers Columba, Lucille, Ann Sebastian Sullivan, Bertrand Crimmins, Rose Meagher, Mary Anastasia Coady, Mary Catherine Malone, Mary Cleophas Mills, Frances Gardener, Catherine Spalding, and Eutropia McMahon, and Sister Marie Menard; prelates such as Richard Cardinal Cushing, Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Martin J. Spalding, John Lancaster Spalding, Simon Bruté, Guy Ignatius Chabrat, John Baptist David, John Baptist Purcell, William Henry Elder, John McGill, August Toebbe, William George McCloskey, Sylvester Rosecrans, Edward Fitzgerald, Joseph Rosati, and Maurice de Saint- Palais; priests such as Stephen T. Badin, J.B. Ryan, Joseph Haseltine, and David Russell; and laymen such as W.S. Caldwell and James F. Edwards.

Background

Catholic religious order of women founded in 1812 in Nazareth, near Bardstown, Kentucky.

Index :

 Reynolds, Ignatius A. 
 Chambige, Francis 
 Coghlan, Michael M. 
 Bouchet, Thomas 
 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky 
 St. Thomas Orphanage 
 St. Vincent's Infirmary, Little Rock, Arkansas 
 Slavery 
 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 
 Religious orders of women 
 Columba, Mother 
 Lucille, Mother 
 Sullivan, Ann Sebastian, Mother 
 Crimmins, Bertrand, Mother 
 Meagher, Rose, Mother 
 Coady, Mary Anastasia, Mother 
 Malone, Mary Catherine, Mother 
 Mills, Mary Cleophas, Mother 
 Gardener, Frances, Mother 
 Spalding, Catherine, Mother 
 McMahon, Eutropia, Mother 
 Menard, Marie, Sister 
 Cushing, Richard, Cardinal, 1895- 
 Ritter, Joseph, Cardinal, 1892- 
 Spalding, Martin John, 1810-1872 
 Spalding, John Lancaster, 1840-1916 
 Bruté, Simon, 1779-1839 
 Chabrat, Guy Ignatius, 1787-1868 
 David, John Baptist Mary, 1761-1841 
 Purcell, John Baptist, 1800-1883 
 Elder, William Henry, 1819-1904 
 McGill, John, 1809-1872 
 Toebbe, August, 1829-1884 
 McCloskey, William George, 1823-1909 
 Rosecrans, Sylvester, 1827-1878 
 Fitzgerald, Edward, 1833-1907 
 Rosati, Joseph, 1789-1843 
 Saint-Palais, James Mary Maurice de, 1811-1877 

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