MARIAN LIBRARY
NEWSLETTER No.13
(New Series)
MAGNIFICAT! October 20, 1943, a historical date! The President of the University of Dayton, Father John A. Elbert, S.M., offers his book Devotion to MaKJ in the Twentieth Century to Father Lawrence onheim, S.M., then head of the Department of Religion, thus officially founding the MARIAN LIBRARY at the University of Dayton. It is a _very modest beginning, but plans are ambitious and hopes run high. The two Marianists have decided to create a university center for the scientific study of the Mother of God and of our devotion to her. This center would remain a
Rev. Lawrence Manheim, S.M.
lasting memorial of three centennials to be marked in 1949-1950: the arrival of the Marianists in the United States,the founding of the University of Dayton, and the death of Father William Joseph Chaminade, the true inspirer of their project. Chaminade in 1816 founded the Daughters of Mary Immaculate and in 1817 the Society of Mary to consecrate to Our Lady apostles who would make her better known so that Jesus, Son of God, born of her for our salvation, would become better known. In 1943, with World War II still raging, the bold venture of gathering copies of all known books on Mary ran into enormous difficulties. The European sources of supply were not available, and it was not easy to find money, collaborators, catalogs, or books. But Father Monheim was the man to make possible the impossible. He wrote to American Catholic publishers and to Catholic institutions of higher studies asking for books, lists of Marian imprints, and for further路 suggestions. His efforts and those of his successor, Father Edmund Baumeister, S.M., resulted in the publication by 1949 of the first Book List of the Marian Library, a bibliography OfMamn titles
Oct.-Nov., 1984
discovered in libraries throughout the United States. A specially bound copy was presented to Pope Pius XII for the golden jubilee of his ordination. He responded by sending his apostolic blessing, the letter signed by his secretary, Msgr. John Baptist Montini, who in 1963 became Paul
VI. October 20, 1983--After forty years of existence, the Marian Library, now housed on the seventh floor of the University's impressive Roesch Library building, has become the most important collection of its kind anywhere. Father Elbert's first book has been followed by over 65,000 others, written in more than fifty languages and spanning all five centuries of printing history. Readers have access to at least one hundred Marian periodicals. They can consult a unique collection of nearly 50,000 clippings from newspapers, magazines and other printed media. Other accumulations include some IO,ooo holy cards and similar images, about 9,000 postage stamps, 8,ooo postcards of shrines and Marian art works, over 2,000 slides, and smaller numbers of medals, engravings, photographs, and statues. There are also recordings of Marian music as well as over 175 cassettes with talks on various aspects of Marian doctrine and devotion.路 These works, specifically Marian, are complemented by materials of a more general character: biblical studies, collections of patristic texts, books on Church history, the liturgy, religious art, general bibliography.
Our Lady of the Marian Library
IMRI.
A NEW DECREE
November 21, 1983 was another historic moment in the development of our Library. On that date Cardinal William Baum, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, signed the decree that renews the approval given on November s, 1975, by Cardinal Gabriel Marie Garrone to the Institute of Marian Studies, founded at that time by the Marian Library and affiliated with the Theological Faculty of the University Marianum, directed by the Servites in Rome. The date of this decree is significant. For in 1964, it was on November 21, Feast of the Presentation of Mary, at the end of the Second _Vatican Council's third session, that Paul VI
DECREE.
solemnly promulgated Lumen gentium, the apostolic constitution on the nature of the Church. In his address, the Pope underlined the importance of the constitution's eighth chapter, 11 0n the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God in the Mystery of Christ and the Church, .. calling it the summit of this major conciliar text. It corresponds 11 truly 11 to the purpose of this Council: 11 to manifest the face of the Church to which the Mother of God is intimately linked and of which she is, as has been well said, 'the part that is the greatest, the best, the principal one, the most elect 111 (AAS 1964, p. 1014). Then in 1973, again on November 21, ninth anniversary of Lumen ftentium, the bishops of the United States ---pij'Dished their joint pastoral letter on devotion to Mary, Behold Your Mother, Woman of Faith.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
TI-lE SACRED CONGREGATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION, which fosters Mariological studies and Marian devotion with special care, attentive to the request of the Illustrious and Very Reverend Grand Chancellor of the Roman Pontifical Theological Faculty 11 Marianum 11 ; aware of the flourishin~ studies to which the 11 1nternational Marian esearch Institute, 11 or the 11 Marian Library, 11 established at the University of Dayton, already devotes itself with skill and diligence, as its professors work actively to teach, cultivate and elucidate ever more completely and . fruitfully the sacred Mariological disciplines; and in view of the favorable opinions given by the Episcopal Conference of the United States, by His Excellency the Archbishop of Cincinnati and by the academic authorities both of the Roman Faculty and of the University of Dayton, this Sacred Congregation gladly accepts the request of the Grand Chancellor and by this decree constitutes and declares that this house of studies, prospering since 1975 in affiliation with this same faculty of the 11 Marianum, 11 will be incorporated for five years, 11 ad experimentum, 11 into the PONTIFICAL THEOLOGICAL FACULTY 11 MARIANUM 11 under the name INTERNATIONAL MARIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IMRI).
Institute will grant (by the power given to the incorporating Faculty) both the Licentiate and the Doctorate in Sacred Theology with specialization in Mariology. Furthermore, the Sacred Congregation prescribes that the same Faculty regulate and direct this honorable Institute strictly in true accord with the Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana, published on 15 April 1979, and in accord also with its annexed rules given on the 29th of the same month and year and in accord likewise with the other academic laws of the Holy See. Let the Faculty take care to fulfill faithfully the Convention, called 11 AGREEM~ made by this Faculty and the Statutes peculiar to the Institute, both documents being approved this day by the Sacred Congregation, observing all that must be observed by law, anything to the contrary notwithstanding. Given at Rome, at the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 21 November, Feast of the Presentation of Mary, in the Jubilee Year 1983. Prefect:
William Cardinal Baum
Organized to administer the second and third cycles of specialized studies of the Faculty, the
By this decree of 1983, our Institute,. now called International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) is incorporated into and not merely affiliated with the Marianum. With its statutes renewed in accord with John Paul ll's apostolic exhortation Sapientia Christiana, it is empowered to prepare
students for both the licentiate and the doctoral degree in theology with specialization in Marian studies. A ceremony for the public reading of the decree granting this new status took place at the University of Dayton in September 1984.
CELEBRATING THE NEW DECREE September 14., 1984, a great moment in the history of the International Marian Research Institute, marked a stage in the development of both the University of Dayton and the Marianum in Rome. That day at a general meeting for all the University of Dayton faculty, the Provost, Bro. Joseph Stander, S.M., announced that at s:oo p.m. a special Vesper service would be held in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception. This service, at which Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati would officiate, was to be an act of gratitude for the decree, which recognizes the work already achieved by the Institute and (X'ints .the way for future developments. Gathered in the chapel with professors and students of the University were members of the Marianist provincialate, Brothers and Sisters from a good number of Marianist communities, and many friends and benefactors of the Marian Library. The Servites were officially represented by Rev. Augustine Kulbis, Provincial of the Servites in the Eastern United States; Rev. Bruce Klikunas, Provincial of the Servites in the Western United States; and by Rev. Lucio Pinkus, Vice-President of the Marianum, who came from Rome as representative of the President, Rev. Salvatore Meo, O.S.M. As the entrance procession led by Rev. Father Joseph Lackner, S.M., University Chaplain, moved to the ai tar, organist Dr. Richard Benedum, head of the University's music department, played Harald Rohling's 11 Trumpet Tune in F Major. 11 The ceremony began with the public reading of the Roman decree by Bro. Raymond Fitz, S.M., President of the University of Dayton. To begin the Vespers proper, the choir and assembly, directed by Bro. Mark Twehues, S.M., then sang a proclamation of light. A hymn, 11Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above, 11 was followed by the Archbishop's opening prayer. With Sr. Leanne Jablonski, F.M.I., as soloist, choir and congregation then chanted Psalm 141 in a setting composed by Bro. Howard Hughes, S.M. Following another prayer, all joined in the New Testament Canticle, 11 Praised Be the Father... After our librarian, Bro. William Fackovec, S.M., read the text of Galatians 4:3-5, Father Eamon R. Carroll, 0. Carm., delivered a deeply moving homily. This was followed by the climax of our thanksgiving in union with Mary, the singing of a 11 Magnificat 11 by Michael Joncas. Then came the general intercessions, the Our Father, and the Archbishop's final blessing. For the recessional, Dr. Benedum played John Stanley's 11 Trumpet Tune in D Major . 11
Rev. Lucio M Pinkus, O.S.M
Bro. Raymond L. Fitz, S.M. UD President reading Decree
Father Lackner, who had organized this inspiring ceremony, also provided a reception in the Chapel Quadrangle. Gathered here around tables offering wine and cheese, people had an excellent op(X'rtunity to meet one another and share thelr joy in the 路 beautiful Vesper service, which had gathered us all for a great act of praise to God. In the evening, at the invitation of Bro. Fitz, the Archbishop and other guests gathered for a dinner, whose arrangements had been prepared by our hostess, Mary A. Neacy, Assistant to the President. Near the end of the meal, Sr. Angela Ann Zukowski, M.H.S.H., who heads the University's Center for Religious Telecommunications, presented a final surprise: the premiere showing of a video cassette on Our Lady, featuring many of the Marian Library's resources. This cassette, filmed by Tony Coffield of the Archdiocesan Television Office, com(X'sed and narrated by Sr. Angela and Bro. Elmer Lange, S.M., demonstrates the Marian Library's place in a university setting. During his appearance on the screen, Bro. Fitz indicates that the Library furthers the pur(X'se of a Catholic university as it aids our search for a better understanding both of Mary's role in salvation history and of her influence in educating each of us. In his turn, V. Rev. Bertrand Buby, S.M., Provincial of the Marianists' Cincinnati Province and professor at the University's Department of Religious Studies and at our Institute, touches dn the biblical foundations of the mystery of Mary. At intervals, our librarian, Bro. Fackovec, displays some of the more unusual books that are at the dis(X'sal of those who study here. Finally, Sr. Trudy Snetsinger, F.M.I., tells how through her studies at the Institute she came to appreciate the im(X'rtance of Our Lady in her life as a woman, as a Christian, and as a religious. The program, which lasts about seventeen minutes, ends with some music rendered by our Marianist Sisters. Shown throughout are a good number of art works from various parts of
the Marian Library's collections. Reflecting many rich cultural traditions, they demonstrate how all nations and periods of time have loved and venerated her who predicted, 11 All generations shall call me blessed. 11 All present congratulated Sister Angela for such a presentation. Bro. Raymond Fitz expressed his pleasure to have received the Archbishop at the University of Dayton, and also the Servite Fathers. Bro. Fackovec then read the following letter received from the Superior General of the Marianists, Very Rev. Jose Marla Salaverri, S.M.: On September 14, 1984, there will take place at the University of Dayton the solemn reading of the Decree by which the International Marian Research Institute is incorporated as a pontifical faculty of the Marianum in Rome.
On this happy occasion, I would like to extend to you, dear Father Koehler, to your collaborators at the Marian Li brary and at the I . M.R.I., to the entire University of Dayton and in particular to its worthy president, Bro. Raymond Fitz, S.M., most sincere congratulations on my part as Superior General and on the part of the entire Society of Mary. The Society of Mary, which the Venerable Father Chaminade founded to "make Mary known, loved, and served," is justl y proud of the Marian Libr ar y and of the International Marian Res earch Institute, fruits of the first Marianist foundat i on in the United States now over a century in existence. Our Venerable Founder said that to Mary, the Mother of the Lord, were reserved great victories in the final ages. I am firmly convinced that Mary can bring light to the world, not only to Christi anity where we find her at the source, but also to many of the problems confronted by the world today. Therefore, I express my sincerest wish that this new Pontifical Institute will know how to offer the world, in a scient ific way, the new appr oaches which Mary can bring to the causes o f peace, of the human pe r son, of r espect for the r i ghts of women, o f the s implicity and q uali ty of life, of e cumeni sm, of ecology and of so many other causes. Is not Mary, indeed, the dawn anno unc ing Christ, the Savior and protot ype of the human person, redeemed and brought to compl e t eness in Him? You can count on the enthusiastic collaboration of the Society of Mary in general and of my own in particular. Very sincerely yours in Mary, Rev. Jose Maria S3l averri, S.M.
Rev. Jose Marfa Salaverri, S.M.
EXPRESSION OF THANKS Father Theodore Koehler, in the name of the Marian Library and of IMRI, thanked, with the following words, all those who made possible the present development of our center of studies and those who prepared so well the celebration of this day: As we bring our celebration to a close, we ask for your continued prayers that we prove faithful stewards in the new responsibilities the Church now entrusts to us. In this we hope to emulate the fine example set by the Marianum. Here at the University of Dayton we will develop our own Marianist tradition , convinced, as our Superior General r eminds us, that Mary relies upon our assistance in her mi ssion. In the chapel we offered our gratitude to the Lord and to our benefactors in heaven, especial] y to Our Lady . Now at table, I want to express our gratitude in the name of the Marian Library and its Institute to those who helped us obtain the approval of the Sacred Congregation in Rome. First, I wish to r e cognize those who were involved in obtaining the first decree, received in 1975: Cardi nal Gabriel Garron e; Archbi shop (now Cardi n al ) Jos eph Be rnar din; the Servites, Fathers Pe regrine Gra f fius and Elio Perretta; and our own Marianists , Fathers William Behringer and Raymon d Roesch. We now have a new de c ree . For this we t hank Card inal William Baum, who signed it last November 21; and our Archbishop, His Grace Dani el Pi l arczyk, who gave us his nihil obstat and his positive enco uragement, one sign of which was his express desire to be present for this ceremony.
We acknowledge our indebtedness to the Servites: Very Rev. Michael Sincerny , Prior General and Grand Chancellor of the Marianum; former president, Father Lucio Pinkus, who is with us representing the Marianum. I am also grateful for the presence here of the two Servite provincials in the States: Fathers Augustine Kulbis and Bruce Klikunas. we owe much for the constant support of our fellow Marianists as exemplified by our provincial, Father Bertrand Buby; Bro. Raymond Fi tz, our president; and our provost, Bro. Joseph Stander , who helped us to formulate our statutes. It is only fitting that at this time we also recognize our debt to those who prepared the way for our future work: the founding 路 fathers of the Marian Library -- Father John A. Elbert, president of the University, and Father Lawrence Monheim, the Library's first director; successive directors -- Fathers Edmund Baumeister, Philip Hoelle, Robert Maloy; and Bro. Stanley Mathews, the first librarian. Finally , our thanks to those who planned the events of this day, to Father Joseph Lackner, who arranged our impressive liturgical celebration, and to Father Eamon Carroll, our distinguished homilist. We are beholden to Bro. Fitz . for sponsoring this dinner and to Mary Neacy, our hostess; to Bro. Donald Fahrig, who took care of the many details in preparation; and to all those who collaborated in making this such a great occasion of thanksgiving. Without any further formalities , we say to you all who joined us in this c elebration a hearty "Thank you! Magnificat. "
Friday evening, September 14, 1984
Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk and Rev. Eamon R. Carroll,
0. Carm.
HOMILY by Rev. Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm. Given at the Vespers of the B.V.M.
Celebrated at the Immaculate Conception Chapel, University of Dayton, 路 on Friday, 14th of September 1984, in Thanksgiving for the Decree of Approval of IM Rl
********** At this solemn Vespers of Our Lady we stand at the juncture of two historic feast days. Today, September 14, is the Triumph of the Holy Cross, commemorating the basilica Constantine built over the Holy Sepulchre of the Savior. And it is the first vespers of tomorrow's feast of the Seven Sorrows of the B.V.M., which began with the Servites and was extended to the entire Church by Pius VII in 1814. No two feasts could be more justifiably juxtaposed. Our reading came from St. Paul's letter to the Galatians, on our inheritance as children of God, daughters and sons of God, co-heirs with Christ, in the familiar passage: "When the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be adopted as sons" (Jerusalem Bible, Gal 4:4). Paul is contrasting the humility of Jesus' human origins with the glory of his divine Sonship; he is extending the paradox of "born of a woman, subject to the Law" to freedom from the Law for all who are called to divine adoption, empowered in the Spirit of his Son to cry out, "Abba, Father." The inspired author is apparently not alluding directly to the virginal conception of Jesus; it is the common human condition he is underscoring, to heighten the contrast -- from the condition of slavery to the adoption brought about by the 'Son's becoming child of a woman, like all of us. In his choice of the means of our manumission, God has defied human wisdom, upset rational calculation. By becoming subject to the Law, becoming even a .:urse, Jesus has paradoxically delivered us all from the slavery of sin and dread of death. Sii'T'Iibrly, the weakness of being born of woman is open-~nded for Paul: the immediate meaning is the lowly birth of Jesus, but the way lies open to the mystery of the virginal conception and to fuller reflection on the Virgin Mother of the infancy narratives. In the Te Deum, surely a fitting hymn also for this joyful celebration of praise, we say, "You, Christ, are the king of glory, the eternal son of the Father. When you became man to set us free, you did not spurn the Virgin's womb; you overcame the sting of death, and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers."
The climax of our Vespers will be the evening song of Mother Church, Mary's canticle, the Magnificat, to which composers and theologians alike have devoted loving attention from St. Luke to the present day. A recent study (by Dom D. Rees, O.S.B., of England) suggests that the Magnificat was originally an early hymn commemorating the paschal mystery of the death and When it came to St. resurrection of Christ. Luke's notice he saw its suitability as our Lady's response to the greeting of Elizabeth, and with prophetic insight added the line, 11 Behold from henceforth all generations will call me blessed, .. repeating Elizabeth's praise of Mary's motherhood of the Sa vior and linking her to all the coming messianic generations. The Magnificat "(so Dom Winzen) shows what God's grace accomplishes in the hearts of those who enter into the kingdom of the Messiah: first of all Mary herself, then the new generation of God's children. As Dom Winzen (d. 1971), of Weston Priory, put it, 11 At the end of the day, when the sun has lost its power, when man's energy is exhausted, and the night approaches which brings all human activity to an end, then we sing the song of Mary in praise of the divine charity which receives into its arms all those that labor and are burdened to give them rest. 11 (Pathways in Scripture) This past May, the gentle English Anglican theologian John de Satge died, at the age of 55路 He was an active member of the Ecumenical Society of the B.V.M., which he helped found in 1967. De Satgt!'s book, rary and the Christian <rsphl (The American e ition was titled Down To art : The New Protestant Vision of the Virgin Mar~.), came out in 1976. It is encouraging to note t at the IMRI is exhibiting an ever-increasing ecumenical outreach -- in special courses, guest lecturers and the great library collection. John de Satge was at Malta last September (1983) for the International Congress on Our Lady, and helped write the ecumenical statement about Mary in the communion of saints. Exactly one year ago today, John de Satge and several of us here present took part in an ecumenical prayer service in Our Lady's honor in the Anglican Cathedral at Valletta in Malta. In his book (Mary and the Christian Gospel), he found a lucid place for Mary from the evangelical standpoint of his own strongly ProtestantAnglican background. His reflections on the Magnificat are typical. God chose her. 11 The theme of grace rings clear as a bell in Mary's song: the Lord whom she magnifies has done it all. 11 A further lesson in the Magnificat is Mary's response. The answer to God's saving word is always, 11 Yes, Father, .. and this was the pattern of Mary's whole life.
He who is mighty has done great things for me ..... -- A study by Rene Laurentin that I will be reading tomorrow (Sat. 15 Sept., 1984) at a charismatic weekend in Milwaukee all about Our Lady, shows that the same Greek word used for 11 great things .. in Mary's Magnificat is used again by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles for the 11 marvelous deeds 11 accomplished by the Spirit of God for the young Church. The 11great events 11 of the primitive Christian proclamation, the apostolic good news, are of a piece with the 11great things 11 the Almighty has done for Mary of the Magnificat. 11 Holy is his name, 11 her canticle continues, anticipating 11hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come ... 11
This evening's Vespers are the liturgical component of an academic celebration -- the formal aggregation of IMRI with the Servite Pontifical All authentic Faculty Marianum of Rome. theology must be God-centered. It is inspiring to see in the recently published Westminster Dictionar~ of Spirituality the article abOut the" Englis Anglican divine Austin Farrer (d. 1968), who gave a chapter to the Rosary in his book Lord I Believe, which dealt with turning the creed Into prayer. It was Austin Farrer who said of the Virgin Mary, 11 Her will is a handle to lay hold of the will of God. 11 And we wish to heed the same man's good advice in our theological study of the holy Virgin, the blessed Mother of God, in whose honor we are assembled. As Dr. Farrer wrote, 11 No dogma deserves a place unless it is prayable, and no Christian deserves his dogmas who docs not pray them. 11 I was privileged to spend the morning in the Marian Library and hold in my hands a 1492 copy of Robert Gaguin's De Puritate Conce~颅 tionis Virginis Mariae, in delense of Mary s Immaculate COnception, printed in Paris (France). It is curious to recall that King James I of England once shook his head over a 1498 copy of that same book and said he hoped such objectionable works could be entirely suppressed. Fortunately, even in the library at Oxford founded by Sir Thomas Bodley, primarily for Protestant theology, the works of doctrinal opponents were admitted, and might even be read with the vice-chancellor's permission. But the rubric that stole my heart, as I am sure it will yours also, might have been written for just such an occasion as this joyful evening. In the constitutions of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, cousin of the saint, this rule is recorded: 11 Each Doctor within ten years of his appointment must publish a work on the Virgin Mary to whom the college and library were dedicated ...
Concluding with reference again to the double feast we are bridging this evening, we hear the words of the learned man the Lord has sent his Church to guide her these exciting days, Pope John Paul II, currently on our North American continent in his great visit to Canada. In his second encyclical, on the mercy of God, the Holy Father brought together knowledge and devotion. In honoring Mary as the sure way to know and to love Christ her Son, he wrote: Better than all others Mary knew the mercy of God and was called to enter into the suffering and death of Jesus her Son --by the sacrifice of her ow.n heart she was joined to his allloving and all-obedient self-surrender on the _cross. Mary has the deepest knowledge of the mystery of God's mercy. She knows its price, she knows how great i t is -- no wonder we call on her as Mother of Mercy, Our Lady of Mercy, Mother of divine mercy.
- IMRI INTERNATIONAL MARIAN RESFARCH INSTITUTE
************** IMRI SUMMER SCHOOL 1985 June 17-July 26, 1985 Courses and Instructors Mary in the Mystery of the Holy Spirit Rev. Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm. - 2 weeks Mary at Vatican II Rev. Frederick Jelly, O.P. -
2
weeks
Marian Theology and the Feminine Rev. Lucio Pinkus, O.S.M. - 2 weeks Mary in the Liturgy. Marialis Cultus Rev. Ren~ Laurentin - 2 weeks S~c_!al ~o_!!r~e~: Mary and the Mystery of the Holy "Spirit in the Bible (Rev. Bertrand Buby, S.M.) and in Patristics (Rev. Luigi Gambero, S.M.). Critical analysis of texts in Greek Patristics (Rev. Luigi Gambero, S.M.), in Latin Patristics (Rev. Vincent Vasey, S.M.), in Modern Theology (Rev. James Heft, S.M.), and Methodology (Rev.Theodore Koehler, S.M.).
The Institute offers in three summer schools a complete program of specialized Marian studies: I) at the graduate level; for the Master of Arts
program at the U. D. Department of Religious studies; or for credits for continuing education programs in religion; 2) in preparation for the Pontifical
degrees of S.T.L. and S.T.D.: IMRI is incorporated into the Faculty of Theology, Marianum (Rome).
The Program: The six-week summer schools are organized each year between mid-June and the end of July. General doctrine: Christology, Ecclesiology, and MariOlogy; -nThTe and Tradition - with a theological synthesis for an ecumenical age. Special studies: Marian devotion and Liturgy, spfi{tuaHty; - catechesis, pastoral questions, art and literature, human sciences, etc. Statutes A printed leaflet is available, containing the statutes, the decree of approval, the agreement between the Servites and the Marianists, and the complete program of studies: three years of preparation for the S.T.L. and two years for those candidates for the S.T .D. who already possess a Pontifical S.T.L.
Marian Library Director, Rev. Theodore Koehler, S.M., and Head Librarian, Bro. William Fackovec, S.M.
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