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| Description: |
Broadside that tells the story of the founding of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College by Mother Theodore Guerin in 1840. Guerin was born and grew up in Etables, France. She was asked to lead a small missionary group to the United States to open schools in the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana. She founded a number of schools in Indiana before her death in 1856. |
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| Origin: | 1940 |
| Created By: |
Denehie, Elizabeth M. |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll39/id/95 |
| Collection: |
Indiana State Library Broadsides Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
No Known Copyright |
| Subjects: |
broadsides ephemera Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.) Guérin, Theodore, Saint, 1798-1856 Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College colleges and universities missionaries Catholics |
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