MARIAN LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON DAYTON, OHIO 45409 (513) 229-4214
Marian Library Newsletter (new series) No. 7
April 1975
Dear Friends and Benefactors: In these Newsletters, we have often had occasion to express our gratitude for what many of you have done to increase the Marian Library's resources and to improve and expand its services. We should like to begin this issue with some words of appreciation for gifts received from our Marianist confreres throughout the world and from several other donors. MARIANIST GIFTS From Rome, FATHER PIERRE HUMBERTCLAUDE, S.M., sent us an icon of Our Lady as the Hodigitria (The .term may be translated as "the guide who points the way"). A small metal wall plaque, it is a variant of the image familiar to many of us as Our Lady of Perpetual Help. BROTHER XAVIER ANSO, S.M., of Cadiz, Spain, who worked as a volunteer at the Library a few summers ago, has given us a very large engraving of Our Lady of Valvanera, patroness of the district of Rioja. The central figures and the small scenes placed along the sides present a capsule history of this popular shrine in north-central Spain. The engraving, done by Joseph Giraldo, is dated Madrid, 1775. The Marianists of ST. LAWRENCE O'TOOLE COLLEGE, near Dublin, Ireland, have donated a beautiful facsimile, recently published, of the Book of Kells. This work is a much needed addition to our collection of materials on early manuscripts. Before returning to Japan after two years of study here at the University of Dayton, BRO. PAUL SUGIYAMA, S.M., presented a very attractive souvenir, a delicately colored Japanese painting on silk picturing Mary, with the Infant Christ at her side, feeding a small flock of birds. Through the intermediary of Father Bertrand Buby, S.M., we received a large collection of books from the Marianist community of ST. JOSEPH'S HIGH SCHOOL in Cleveland. Most important among them was a set, practically complete, of the works of Cardinal Newman. When the headquarters of the Marianists' Cincinnati Province moved to a new location here in Dayton, FATHER NORBERT BROCKMAN, S.M., gave us several sets of breviaries and a number of Latin Missals in various editions. All of these will be useful for future liturgical research.
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BRO. DONALD HEBELER, S.M., director of the community at the Provincialate, presented a painting, one whose subject remains somewhat obscure. In it, Christ, bearing His cross and crowned with thorns, appears to a woman kneeling in adoration. She and several figures in the background are dressed in 17th-century costume. Before going to Boston for further studies, FATHER CHARLES BRADY, S.M., augmented our periodical holdings with substantial numbers of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, New Testament Abstracts, and The Bible Today. Father has also helped our work by frequently calling attention to items of Marian interest in publications dealing with the current feminist movement. As we were preparing this issue, Father Brady sent us an unusual book from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: ~Devotional Miscellany. It is a partial facsimile of a book of religious pictures that were embroidered, most probably by nuns in a Spanish convent, sometime in the 17th century. Another loyal benefactor of many years, BRO. FRANK DEIBEL, S.M., recently returned to the University of Dayton from Australia. A librarian, Bro. Frank, volunteered his services and has begun to put in order our large collection of postcards from shrines and museums. The President of the University, FATHER RAYMOND ROESCH, S.M., has shown a vital interest in the Library during his administration. With his assistance, we were able to install, just before Christmas, some badly needed shelving for our books. The north side of our stack area now has a full complement of shelves, while our reading room has an annex to house the overflow of the large number of works in our general reference collection. OTHER DONORS Among our generous friends of long standing, we number BRO. CYRIL ROBERT, F.M.S., of New York, who keeps sending us a continual stream of books, pamphlets, and articles. Still another is FATHER EDWARD DOHERTY, of Combermere, Canada. With the books Father sent not long ago were the proceedings of the second and third congresses of the Canadian Legion of Mary, held in 1944 and 1949 respectively. They are the only such items presently in our holdings. The FRANCISCAN EDUCATION CENTER of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, has sent several hundred new cards to be put into our Union Catalog. We are very grateful for this generous addition to our store of information about Marian literature available to scholars in this country. MR. RAYMOND NARTKER, Director of University Libraries, arranged for the transfer to our custody of two 17th-century Lyons imprints. One is an edition of the Opuscula of St. Bonaventure (1221-1274), published by A. Pillehotte in 1619. 路The other is the six volume edition of the Opera omnia of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), which appeared in 1658, published by the Societas Bibliopolarum Parisiensium cJanauschek llOOJ. Neither of these editions is listed in the present National Union Catalog of pre- 1956 imprints. We also wish to thank the Periodicals Division of the University Library for handing over to us the current issues of the L'Osservatore Romano.
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Our thanks finally to our volunteer staff. First of all, to MRS. FRANK SUTTON, whose vast clipping file now numbers over 34,600 items. We are further indebted to her for a set of film strips and cassettes she donated recently. These are designed as an introduction to the American Bishops' pastoral, Behold Your Mother. MRS. ANTHONY FIORE and MISS ALMA ZIMMERMAN continue with their work of preparing indexes to such collections as the international Mariological congresses, the more important research journals and the Analecta Hymnica of Dreves and Blume. We greatly appreciate the persistence with which these women have given themselves to what are truly monumental tasks. RARE BOOKS Among the early books we have purchased during the last few months, is a possible incunable. No date or place of printing appears in the printed text, but a former owner inscribed the date 1493 on the last two leaves. The work is a collection of lenten sermons by the Dominican GABRIEL BARLETTA (d. 1480?), one of the outstanding pulpit orators of his day. (There was a saying to the effect that he who does not know his Barletta does not know haw to preach.) There are six sermons for Saturday in honor of Mary. The fifth one would interest someone studying the question of how preachers of that day treated v7omen. Through the Book Endowment Fund, we acquired a LATIN BIBLE printed by Thielmann Kerver at Paris in 1504. The text contains the corrections made by the Dominican Alberto da Castello (ca. 1460-1522). cSee Darlow and Maule, p. 915.J Our copy has bound with it several interesting illustrations taken from a number of other Bibles. Kerver, an important Parisian publisher, was noted for his Books of Hours and also for his editions of classical authors and of contemporary humanists. To our examples of 17th-century engraving we have added a suite of plates by Jerome Wierix (1551-1619) illustrating the Salve Regina. The details of these emblematic pictures are of remarkable sharpness and clarity. PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES This past January, our Marian Library Institute featured FATHER DONAL FLANAGAN, professor of dogmatic theology at Maynooth, Ireland. Cosponsored by the Marian Library and the University's Department of Religious Studies, the two-day institute, held on January 14 and 15 dealt with "the Church evolving towards an ecumenical, Marian, charismatic future." In his first lecture, Father dealt with "Women and Jesus' Mother in Today's World." The following afternoon he conducted a seminar on "Ecumenical Renewal and the Re-evaluation of our Marian Past." In the evening he spoke on "The Role of the Spirit and Mary in the Charismatic Renewal"" Father Flanagan's contributions were well received. We were honored to have had him with us. In February, FATHER THEODORE KOEHLER, S.M., Director of the Library, and Father Robert Bouffier, S.M., conducted a week-end workshop for the Marianist priests of the St. Louis Province. The sessions dealt with the question of how Marianists celebrate Mary's cult in the liturgy.
Page 4 At the Library itself, both Father Koehler and Bro. William Fackovec, S.M., have given talks to various groups of students: CCD classes from Daytonarea parishes, students from Chaminade-Julienne High School, as well as students from the language and art departments of the University. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS The March issue of Der Marianist, published by the Marianists of Austria, will include an article on the Marian Library and the University of Dayton written by FATHER BERNARD TRUFFER, S.M., one of our scholars in residence this year. The spring issue of the UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON REVIEW will comprise the talks given during our 30th-anniversary workshop, the address delivered at the anniversary dinner by Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati, and as an appendix, a pastoral letter entitled "Women in the New World," by Bishop Leo T. Maher of San Diego, California. Within the next few weeks, Volume 6 of MARIAN LIBRARY STUDIES will appear. This number will be given over to a doctoral thesis on the spiritual life of St. Louis Grignion de Montfort, the great missionary preacher who worked in Brittany during the early 18th-century, and whose writings on Mary have had a very wide influence. This study, entitled Itinerario spirituale di ~Luigi di Montfort (1673-1716) nel periodo fino al sacerdozio (5 giugno 1700), is the work of the Montfortian Father Stefano De Fiores. We hope that it will be ready in time for the International Marian Congress to be held in Rome at Pentecost. CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES Here in Dayton, a weekend workshop on "The Marian Question Today," will be held May 9-11 at Bergamo, the Marianist Retreat-Conference Center. Among the speakers will be DR. JAROSLAV PELIKAN, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale's Divinity School. Dr. Pelikan, an eminent scholar, who holds important posts in many prestigious organisations, has written a great number of books that have won wide acclaim. The first of his two talks will explore Eastern understandings of Mary, while the second will deal with Protestant typologies of Mary. FATHER GEORGE KIRWIN, O.M.I., Professor of Theology at Oblate College in Washington, D.C., will address himself to the evolution of Roman Catholic Marian thought before and after Vatican II. Those interested in attending the sessions should write for details to Rev. Norbert Brockman, S.M., Bergamo, 4435 E. Patterson Road, Dayton, Ohio 45430. May 12 -May 17, the SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL MARIOLOGICAL CONGRESS will be held in Rome at the Antonianum. The general theme of the Congress will be Marian devotion from the beginning of the 12th to the beginning of the 16th century. These meetings will be followed by a Marian Congress, opening on May 18, Pentecost Sunday, and concluding on May 21. The speakers here will treat of the Holy Spirit and Mary.
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CENTER FOR MARIAN STUDIES In our last Newsletter, we mentioned our eventual affiliation, as an institute, with Marianum, the Pontifical Theological Faculty of the Servites in Rome. For this foundation, we have received the best wishes of His Eminence Cardinal Garrone, who heads the Congregation for Catholic Education, and the encouragement of our own Archbishop Joseph Bernardin. "There is a real need," wrote the Archbishop, "for a scholarly approach to Mariology and a positive integration of Marian theology into the broader spectrum of the theological sciences." The first doctoral candidate prepared at the Marian Library will be Father Marian Zalecki, o.s.P. He will defend his thesis, The Theology of ~ Marian Shrine: Czestochowa, at the Marianum following the congresses referred to above. OUR DEPARTED Shortly after we had prepared our December Newsletter, we learned of the Death of FATHER LEON ARENDT, founder of the Marian Library at Banneux, Belgium. During the years that he was actively engaged with this work, he frequently sent us duplicates from his collection. As a result, we obtained many books and pamphlets on Marian shrines in Belgium that we would otherwise lack. Father's correspondence reveals a great trust in God's loving providence. In a letter of 1970, thanking us for our congratulations on the occasion of his sixty-five years in the priesthood, he wrote: "The day draws near when I shall render an account of my life to my most loving Heavenly Father in whom I have placed all my confidence, but I still have much need of your good prayers that I may be purified before the blessed meeting." An article on this remarkable man appeared in The Marianist Magazine for October 1961. During the Christmas season, we were informed that MR. HOLDEN FREDERICK HALL of the Newberry Library in Chicago had died. Mr. Hall was most helpful in getting us in touch with rare-book dealers in Portugal. He showed his interest in our work in various other ways, principally by writing to us about Marian books discovered in catalogs that passed through his hands. Then early this year we lost MR. JOHN STEINBRUEGGE of the department of University Relations. We owe Mr. Steinbruegge a great debt for the effort he made to acquire supplementary funds for our projects. We ask our readers to remember in their prayers the souls of these our very faithful departed. While we are saddened by their deaths, we are yet comforted by our hope in a risen Lord. To all of you, we wish the blessings of a joyful Eastertide in Him who died and rose again, conqueror of death. Sincerely in Christ and Mary, The Marian Library Staff
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