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Title

Jesuit Province of New England: The Formative Years

Authors

James Leo Burke S.J.

Files

Description

All physical materials associated with the New England Province Archive are currently held by the Jesuit Archives in St. Louis, MO. Any inquiries about these materials should be directed to the Jesuit Archives . Electronic versions of some items and the descriptions and finding aids to the Archives, which are hosted in CrossWorks, are provided only as a courtesy.

This history of the New England Province of Jesuits covers the years of approximately 1920 to 1945. It describes establishing the New England Region and the educational institutions for the Jesuits: Shadowbrook, the house of formation in Lenox, Mass., Weston College, the scholasticate, in Weston, Mass., and St. Robert’s Hall, the tertianship, in Pomfret, Conn. It also tells of the founding of the first retreat house, Campion Hall, in North Andover, Mass., and the famine relief work in Russia of Rev. Louis J. Gallagher, S.J., one of the founding members of the New England Province.

Publication Date

1976

Publisher

Society of Jesus of New England

City

Boston

Keywords

Jesuits, New England Province of the Society of Jesus, History

Disciplines

History | Missions and World Christianity

Comments

James Leo Burke, S.J. (1901-1988) was an administrator and a founding member of the New England Province of Jesuits.

This volume was published on the 50th anniversary of the New England Province of Jesuits.

The cover photograph is of the Cranwell Preparatory School in Lenox, Mass.

Recommended Citation

Burke, James Leo S.J., "Jesuit Province of New England: The Formative Years" (1976). New England Province History. 1.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/nenprovhistory/1