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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 1929 to 1979. It describes educational institutions: Cheverus High School, Portland, Maine, Cranwell Preparatory School, Lenox, Mass., Fairfield Preparatory School and Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn., the Xavier School, Concord, Mass., the relocation of Boston College High School from the South End of Boston to Dorchester, and the proposed use of Weston College, Weston, Mass., as a military hospital during World War II as well as the Baghdad Mission and some other mission possibilities in the Middle East and Argentina.

Publication Date

1986

Publisher

Society of Jesus of New England

City

Boston

Keywords

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

Disciplines

History | Missions and World Christianity

Comments

This book is a sequel to the volume: Jesuit Province of New England: The Formative Years by Rev. James Leo Burke, S.J. Fr. Burke was an administrator and founding member of the New England Province of Jesuits.

The forward by Rev. Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J. provides important context for this volume. Fr. Lapomarda is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and a member of the New England Province of Jesuits.

Jesuit Province of New England: The Expanding Years
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