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Monsignor Thaddeus Lawton, OP's account of the automobile accident and death of Sister Mary Bernadette Beckermann, OP, a Great Bend Dominican sister who was serving alongside the friars in Nigeria. The accident occured on July 25, 1959, in Gusau, Nigeria. The full audio can be viewed on our digital exhibit site here.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material relating to the St. Thomas Aquinas House and Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Material includes correspondence from pastors and priors, Newman Center/Club events and documentation, media, church directories, and staff material. There is also a large amount of bulletins and newsletters produced between 1950 and 2014. Also included are materials from the National Newman Club Foundation, which held several...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Vocation Promotional Material Collection contains objects created for the promotion of vocations to the Province of St. Albert the Great and the Dominican Order, more generally. It is composed of three series, each consisting on one box each. The first series contains an assortment of pamphlets advertising the Dominican charism and different kinds of ministries. The majority of these materials are specific to the Central Province, but also include a few "general" vocational...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection covers 66 subgroups, each representing a location served by friars within the Province. Each house or priory is listed under their location, while areas that they worked with through missions or stations are also listed but connected to their house of residence.“Houses” are arranged alphabetically by the city in which they are located, each city constituting a distinct Subgroup. Within a Subgroup each foundation constitutes a distinct Series and are arranged by...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material relating to the St. Thomas Aquinas House and Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Material includes correspondence from pastors and priors, Newman Center/Club events and documentation, media, church directories, and staff material. There is also a large amount of bulletins and newsletters produced between 1950 and 2014. Also included are materials from the National Newman Club Foundation, which held several...

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Six tracks of liturgical chant by the friars of St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis on a CD-ROM. Files originally in CDF format and digitized into WAV.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains personal materials relating to friars after they have left the order, passed away, or transferred to another province. Each friar's file contents are mostly contain to their novitiate records, canonical assignments, historically important correspondence, and a small number of personal items if desired upon their passing. Within the broader collection, each Friar is sorted as a series. Friars with particuarly substantial historically important papers or...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection covers 66 subgroups, each representing a location served by friars within the Province. Each house or priory is listed under their location, while areas that they worked with through missions or stations are also listed but connected to their house of residence.“Houses” are arranged alphabetically by the city in which they are located, each city constituting a distinct Subgroup. Within a Subgroup each foundation constitutes a distinct Series and are arranged by...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Bolivia Missions Collection documents the missionary, administrative, educational, and pastoral activities of the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great in Bolivia from 1956 to 2025, with the bulk of the records dating from the establishment of the Bolivian Vicariate in 1962 through its elevation to an independent Vice-Province in 2013. The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, reports, publications, photographs, slides,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material relating to the St. Thomas Aquinas House and Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Material includes correspondence from pastors and priors, Newman Center/Club events and documentation, media, church directories, and staff material. There is also a large amount of bulletins and newsletters produced between 1950 and 2014. Also included are materials from the National Newman Club Foundation, which held several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material relating to the St. Thomas Aquinas House and Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Material includes correspondence from pastors and priors, Newman Center/Club events and documentation, media, church directories, and staff material. There is also a large amount of bulletins and newsletters produced between 1950 and 2014. Also included are materials from the National Newman Club Foundation, which held several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material relating to the St. Thomas Aquinas House and Aquinas Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Material includes correspondence from pastors and priors, Newman Center/Club events and documentation, media, church directories, and staff material. There is also a large amount of bulletins and newsletters produced between 1950 and 2014. Also included are materials from the National Newman Club Foundation, which held several...

Abstract Audio recording of the homily preached by Fr. Edward Hughes, OP at the funeral Mass for Sr. Mary Bernadette Beckermann. The Mass was celebrated at St. Pius in Chicago, IL and the celebrant was Fr. John Marr, OP. The first few minutes are distorted due to an error of setting the volume too high on the original recording. The digitized audio has been made into an accessible YouTube video with subtitles ...