MARIAN LIBRARY. Marian Library Newsletter (new series) No. 10 May Dear Friends and Benefactors:

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1 MARIAN LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON DAYTON, OHIO (513) Marian Library Newsletter (new series) No. 10 May 1979 Dear Friends and Benefactors: You have had no news about the Marian Library since July During this "silent" interim our work here has been expanding significantly; there was no time to "write history" while these important developments were taking place. A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO REV. RAYMOND A. ROESCH, S.M., is first in order. On the occasion of his retirement after 20 years as President of the University of Dayton, we wish to express our gratitude for his constant interest in the Marian Library and its center of studies. Soon after he took office, Father Roesch integrated the Marian Library into the University library system. This ensured a stable financial base that made it possible to expand our holdings considerably and encouraged us to move with confidence in developing various activities. Then, about ten years ago, Father transferred to our use the endowment established in memory of his brother, Walter Roesch, S.M., former head of the University libraries. The resources of this fund have brought to our collection some outstanding examples of fine printing. We have presented pertinent details about each of these works in past issues of the Newsletter. The most recent purchase made through the Walter Roesch Memorial Fund was that of a highly-interesting work by the Mexican mystic, Maria Anna Aguedo de San Ignacio: Marabillas del divino amor (Mexico, 1758), a treatise on Mary as the spiritual mother of mankind. We were very happy to learn that the Board of Trustees of the University of Dayton decided to name the university library building after Father Roesch. With deep gratitude for his generous support over many years, we extend to him our wishes for God's abundant blessings on his future endeavors. SEVERAL NEW STAFF MEMBERS have joined the Marian Library and its Institute. During the summer of 1977, we hired a second secretary, Roser Caldere, who has been occupied with some translating and has taken over some of our foreignlanguage correspondence. To her credits in Spanish, French, German, and Italian, she can also add Catalan; her family comes originally from Barcelona, Spain. In September 1977, Rev. Vincent Branick, S.M., who comes from the Pacific Province of the Society of Mary, became a member of the Institute and Assistant to its Dire~tor. A doctor both in philosophy (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and in Sacred Scripture (Biblicum, Rome), Father teaches courses in New Testament and in modern theology. He had been on the faculty of Chaminade University in Honolulu. Bro. Richard Dineen, S.M., joined us in March 1978, coming from North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, where he had been librarian. At the present time, he is assisting Bro. William Fackovec, S.M.a in cataloging our English Marian books. In September 1978, Sr. Cecilia Schiml, F.M.I., came to us from San Antonio, Texas, where she had been Formation Directress for the U.S. Province of the Daughters of Mary. She has replaced Sr. Maria Blanca Lopez, who is now completing a year of

2 special studies in theology and spirituality in Toronto, Canada. Sr. Cecilia has been engaged chiefly in editing both our own Marian Library Studies and the annual Marian Studies, published by the Mariological Society of America. NUMEROUS GIFTS FROM MANY SOURCES have been coming to the Library. It would form a lengthy list, indeed, were we to mention individually all the books, pamphlets, journals, clippings, slides, photographs, postcards, pictures, art works; stamps and medals that we have received. There is one category of gifts that we will single out, however; for these have come in more than ordinary quantity. In the summer of 1977, Mr. Frank Hessler of Baltimore sent us medals of the 12 Apostles, a beautifully-crafted set issued in silver by the Catholic Commemorative Medal Society. Just a few weeks later, a box of over 200 Marian medals arrived from a convent of Dominican Sisters in California. This hoard included medals, some of them quite old, from many little-known shrines, most of them in France. Late last year, Father Raymond A. Roesch presented us with a set of the Christmas medals issued each year by the Franklin Mint. Except for the 1997 issue, the set is complete from 1966 through The latest addition to our collection is a medal commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal at Berryville, Mo. This was a gift from Mrs. Frank Sutton, who is in charge of our clipping file. In brief review, our total acquisitions presently comprise: over 55,000 books and pamphlets, over 41,200 entries in the vertical (clipping) file, runs of varying lengths from over 120 Marian periodicals from throughout the world, over 5,000 pictures (paintings and prints), over 2,000 slides, over 10,000 holycards, about 3,000 postcards, some 1,000 photographs, 80 phonograph records, 75 filmstrips, 15 audiotapes, 86 reels and 195 fiches of microforms, a growing philatelic collection (Marian stamps), a modest numismatic collection (medals and coins), and over 100 statues of Mary. We have also sent 3,456 entries to the Library of Congress; these are now appearing in the National Union Catalog. By means of the NUC, our own catalog is becoming available to a broader spectrum of researchers. THE SERVICES RENDERED BY OUR VOLUNTEERS evidence high professional standards and genuine dedication to the purposes of the library; they merit our heartfelt thanks. Mrs. Frank Sutton's clipping file now numbers close to 41,300 items. She has noted that within the past year, the number of current articles on Mary in Catholic papers and magazines has been noticeably increasing. For that reason we have temporarily halted our retrospective search for materials in the bound journals of the University library. Mrs. Anthony Fiore has completed the typing of slips for a prospective index to all 53 volumes of the Analectica Hymnica: a monumental task that stretched over some five years. She has also finished typing author-title indices to the first three International Mariological Congresses, held between 1950 and 1958, as well as an author-title index to all the issues of the French Canadian journal Marie, published from May 1947 to January Those of our readers who have these congress proceedings or the set of Marie in their libraries may be interested in acquiring xeroxed copies of these useful indices. The following table indicates the cost of copying. Postage is extra. Alma Socia Christi (1950 Congress, Rome), 15 p $1.50 Virgo Immaculata (1954 Congress, Rome), 23 p $2.30 Maria et Ecclesia (1958 Congress, Lourdes), 15 p. $1.50 Marie (May 1947 to Jan. 1961), 100 p $10.00

3 We are grateful to Bro. Frank Deibel, S.M., for his services during the last two years. His chief project to date has been the setting up of a well-organized file for our thousands of postcards, which previously had been in complete disarray. The file has three major divisions: l)postcards of shrines--divided by country and then subdivided by city; 2) pictures of art works (paintings, statues, etc.)--arranged by artist and subdivided where necessary by theme; 3) pictures of art works not identified as to artist--arranged by theme. If you yourself or anyone in your acquaintance are interested, we would certainly welcome additional volunteer assistance, especially for the vertical file project to which Mrs. Sutton donates so much time and energy. Also, our collections of pictures, holycards, photographs, stamps, medals, and statues still remain largely "unorganized." MARIAN LIBRARY EXHIBITS since the last Newsletter include the following. The Ohio Shakespeare Conference met at the University of Dayton in March For this event, Dr. Alan Kimbrough of the English Department arranged for one of the travelling exhibits from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Marian Library supplemented these materials with works from its own collection. These were books by outstanding figures who were widely read during the late 16th and early 17th centuries: St. Peter Canisius, Justus Lipsius, Thomas Stapleton, Luis de la Puente, Antonio de Guevara, Joseph Hall, and St. Robert Bellarmine. From November 1978 through January 1979, we featured an exhibit marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert ( ), who composed a number of works honoring the Virgin Mary besides his justly-popular "Ave Maria." Portraits of Schubert, his family and friends, leading literary figures of his time, scenes from the Austrian countryside and the Vienna which he knew--all these provided a background for displaying the scores of his settings for the "Salve Regina," ''Magnificat," and "Stabat Mater." One of the smaller cases held portraits of Goethe, Schiller, Grillparzer, and Klopstock, together with some of their texts which Schubert used in his songs. In a case reserved for the "Ave Maria" were the original stanzas of Ellen's "Hymn to the Virgin" as they appear in Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake, Schubert's own setting of the German translation, and three subsequent arrangements of this work. Our thanks go to Ms. Friederike Zeitkhofer, of the Austrian Cultural Institute in New York, for donating some important material for this exhibit and to Elaine Wilkinson for arranging an extended loan of many books from the Dayton Public Library. To commemorate the centenary of the death of St. Bernadette Soubirous ( ), who was favored with visions of Our Lady at Lourdes, we have arranged an exhibit that will continue on display until the end of July. The books and pictures selected focus attention on Bernadette herself rather than on the apparitions or on the world-famous shrine; especially featured are the recent books published by Ren~ Laurentin. This exhibit has proved to be the most popular one we have ever mounted. VISITORS FROM SEVERAL STATES AND COUNTRIES have been with us for varying lengths of time. In early February 1978, shortly after the blizzard that struck this part of the country, we were pleased to welcome from Spain Rev. Jordi Fort i Gaud!. At his parish house in the community of S. Climent de Llobregat, near Barcelona, Father has established the Archivo Mariano, a Marian museum and library, whose materials he has been assembling for 30 years and more. The largest private collection of Mariana in his country, the Archivo is devoted exclusively to books and artifacts dealing with the many local shrines honoring the Blessed Virgin

4 that are found throughout Spain. Before coming for his month-long visit, Father Fort sent us several parcels of duplicates from his collection. These works, chiefiy in Catalan and issued in small editions, would have been difficult for us to obtain through ordinary commercial channels. Father also brought with him a catalog prepared just for us, a listing of the works in his library, arranged by shrine. We are most grateful for such generous collaboration. Rev. Salvator Fink, O.F.M., editor of the Anthonian (The Franciscans, Box 2948, Paterson, N.J ), spent a day with us in September 1977, looking for photographs to illustrate an issue he was composing on the children of Fatima. He appeared greatly pleased with what he found. Each number of his interesting quarterly presents the life of some saintly person in a text that is succinct and factual, illustrated with many well-chosen pictures that bring the biographee very vividly before the reader. In the Spring of 1978, an undergraduate student from Cornell University stayed for two days consulting materials in the Clugnet Collection on pilgrimages to Lourdes. This past September, an airline stewardess from Georgia came for a day to get some ideas for a Marian study program in parishes. Dr. William Christian, well-known for his work in religious sociology, paid us another visit early this year. He was on his way to California, where he is now working with the documentation he has gathered on popular devotional life in Spain. Marian shrines will figure prominently in the three-volume study that he projects for publication. THE MARIAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE'S second SUMMER SCHOOL, held June 21--July 29, 1977, was titled "Faith, Myth, Historical Realisties: Jesus, Mary in the New Testament and the Apocrypha." Courses were given by Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm., Rev. Ren~ Laurentin, Vincent Vasey, S.M., Th~odore Koehler, S.M., and Mr. Henry Setter. Robert Bouffier, S.M., served as Director of Studies. The third summer school, June 19--July 27, 1978, "Christian Spiritualities, Ecumenism, and Mary," was designed to help religious orders with a Marian denomination to discover and develop a spirituality for our own times and to define the place of Mary in this spirituality. Lecturers were Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm., Rev. Ren~ Laurentin, Vincent Vasey, S.M., Th~odore Koehler, S.M., Vincent Branick, S.M., Justin Ryska, O.S.M., Frederick Jelly, O.P., and Sr. Jeanne Glisky, S.F.P. In preparation for his lectures on "The Marian Congregations in North America since the 19th Century," Father Branick wrote to Marian Congregations of women religious, requesting copies of their rule or constitutions. As a result~ our holdings now include about 30 such documents. IMRI--INTERNATIONAL MARIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE is the NEW NAME recently decided on for the Marian Library Institute. By it, we intend to convey better the international scope and scholarly orientation of our Institute which, since 1975, has been affiliated with the Marianum in Rome and empowered to prepare candidates for the pontifical licentiate and doctorate in theology (S.T.L., S.T.D.) with a specialization in Marian studies. We feel this new title emphasizes the international character of our research program, library, staff, and students. On December 9, 1977, Professor John Britt completed the requirements for his S.T.L. with a general examination and the presentation of a thesis specializing in Marian research: "A Status Quaestionis and Analytical Study of the Use of the Apocalypse by Newman in 'A Letter to Pusey'." At present, Professor Britt is working on a

5 doctoral dissertation, a study of the biblical quotations Newman used in his Marian texts. Father Bertrand Buby, S.M., is preparing his doctoral dissertation on the use of Scripture by Greek homilists, from A.D., when treating the Incarnation and Mary. Volume 8 of MARIAN LIBRARY STUDIES finally appeared in January This number is given over to the publication of the first dissertation prepared at our Marian Library Institute, The Theology of ~Marian Shrine: Czestochowa, by Rev. Marian Zalecki, O.S.P. Due to Father Zalecki's enthusiastic promotion, the first printing was soon exhausted, and we had to arrange for a second run of 400 copies. An abridged version of this work is now being prepared for publication in French by Descl~e of Paris. We will offer a specially-bound volume of the original edition to Pope John Paul II. The white lambskin cover is ornamented with the papal coat of arms, and a special dedication page is being prepared which reads: In homage to our Sovereign Pontiff/the University of Dayton/and its/marian Library and Institute/ Society of Mary/Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A./Present to/his Holiness/Pope John Paul II,This volume- of/marian Library Studies/Dedicated to/our Lady of Czestochowa/In joyful anticipation/of the 600th anniversary of this site/so precious to the people of Poland/ /. Volume 9 of MARIAN LIBRARY STUDIES is just off the Press. The main article, Rev. Gonzalo Girones' "Los or!genes del misterio de Elche," is an exhaustive study of the Assumption Day drama produced annually, since at least the 14th century, by the citizens of Elche, a town near Valencia. Father Girones gives the complete text of the play as it is now used and compares elements of it with some earlier writings, such as the Mozarabic version of the Transitus Mariae and the Golden Legend by James of Voragine. He also touches the question of the iconographic representations of the death and Assumption of Mary, and ends with a hypothetical reconstruction of the play's original text. (We wish to mention parenthetically that the Folger Shakespeare Library, in its newsletter for October 1978, announced that it had arranged for the filming of a performance of the Elche drama last August. An edited version of this film is being prepared for television, and studies of the play's archival records, its music, and its relation to other medieval dramas are underway.) Father Girones' work is followed by a complementary article, Rev. Bertrand de Margerie's "Le myst~re de la mort de Marie dans l'~conomie du salut. Au-delA du fait, le sens," an investigation, based on patristic tradition, into the meaning of Mary's death. The next article, Christoph Baumer's "Die Schreinmadonna," opens a new field of investigation in iconography. (The Schreinmadonna--in French, vierge ouvrante--is a statue of the Madonna and Child made in such a way that it could be opened to form a triptych that presented the history of salvation by using various iconographical themes.) The author provides a geographical and chronological classification of these statues and provides 54 photographs illustrating all the known surviving examples. The final article, Louis Schlaefli's "La plus ancienne image pieuse de Notre-Dame de Schauenberg," is a brief note on the discovery of a late 15th-century or early 16th-century woodcut, the oldest picture known to represent the image of our Lady of Schauenberg, honored at a shrine about 13 km. south of Colmar (France). THE STAFF OF THE LIBRARY AND INSTITUTE have been quite active, both within and outside the University. In September 1977, the Director, Father Koehler, spoke at the annual meeting of the French Mariological Society. His talk, "Iconological Reflections on the Relations between a Marian Shrine and Its Iconography," has since been published in the Society's bulletin. In 1978, Father was re-elected to that Society's board of directors. In January 1979, the Mariological Society of America elected Father Koehler as Secretary. He replaces Father Juniper Carol, O.F.M., founder of the Society, who had served as secretary for 30 years and is now its President Emeri~ tus. The most recent fascicle of the Dictionnaire de Spiritualit~ includes two

6 articles by Father Koehler: one on Marian devotion between 750 and 1600 and another on mercy. Father Vincent Branick, S.M., Assistant to the Director, has been lecturing extensively. In July 1978, he presented three 'talks to the Sisters of Notre Dame in Cincinnati on Mary in the Church today. In October 1978 and February 1979, he presented a series on St. Paul at the Vatican II Institute for Clergy Renewal at Menlo Park, California. As a member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton, he delivered a lecture to his colleagues on Jesus and the New Testament. Father also attended the conventions of the Catholic Biblical Association, the Mariological Society of America, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The July issue of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly will contain his review of a new book on St. Paul by the Italian, Mauro Pesce. Bro. William Fackovec's lectures have acquainted various departments of the University with the resources of the Marian Library. In October 1977, he spoke to Prof. Mary Zahner's class es in art education about the different kinds of Marian icons venerated by Eastern Rite Churches. Early in February 1978, he introduced Dr. Richard Benedum's students in music history to some of the early religious music in the Library's collections. This presentation was much enhanced by a flutist who played some examples of Byzantine chant and a number of brief songs from 13th-century Spain (settings for the Cantigas of Alfonso X) and a few laude from 14th-century Italy. Later that month, Rev. John Dickson, S.M., came to the library with his seminar on the sociology of religion for a survey on the development of art representing the Immaculate Conception. In November, Dr. Alan Kimbrough's graduate students in bibliography saw some of our earliest printed materials and had the pleasure of reading from books produced in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Finally, Dr. Enrique Romaguera's class in French civilization examined, by way of facsimiles, some of the splendid illuminated manuscripts created between the 9th a Vasey, S.M., wrote several articles for publication in the first Dizionario degli Istituti di perfezione: Father W. J. Chaminade, founder of the Society of Mary (Marianists) and the Daughters of Mary, in collaboration with their foundress, Adele de Trenquelleon (Figlie di Maria Immaculata di Agen); Marie Therese de Lamourous ~q. ILd..ress_.qJ_!:l,:l_~_:,_~i-s_e.EJsox.de~.,Q!,_,..,B'""o'""r'"'d""e;o.;a;;;.:ux::::... the Sisters of Misericordia. ""Father also edited and prepared the historical commen ary or Volume VI of the Letters of Father Chaminade. He reviewed The Legal Enterprise by Robert E. Rhodes for the University of Dayton Law Review (Vol. 2, 1977), and was himself author of an article for The Catholic Lawyer (1978), "Boerner vs. Board of Public Works, Maryland--Supreme Court's Evaluation of the Religious Mission of Catholic Colleg es and Church Expectations." Father Bertrand Buby, S.M., delivered two lectures on "The Exegetical Method of Theodore of Mopsuestia." One was given to the Department of Religious Studies (University of Dayton), and the other was addressed to the convention of the \ Catholic Biblical Society. THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL MARIOLOGICAL-MARIAN CONGRESS, to be held in Saragossa, Spain, October 3-12, 1979, will focus on Marian devotion during the 16th century. In preparation for this congress, we have been compiling a catalog of all our imprints up to the year These holdings, which total at least 2,000 items, include not only works that are expressly Marian but also sermon collections, commentaries on the Bible, liturgical books, in addition to theological tracts, devotional materials, poems. The resultant list, to be arranged chronologically, will be a useful index for researchers.

7 TO CONCLUDE THIS ISSUE OF THE NEWSLETTER, we would like to call your attention to the 125th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, We are planning a special exhibit to mark this important event in the history of Marian doctrine in the Church and to celebrate the fact that it is under this title that Mary is invoked as Patronness of our own nation. Doubtless, this anniversary will inspire various prayerful, scholarly, and creative demonstrations. Please let us know if we can be of any service; our collection is especially strong on this particular topic. Sincerely in Our Lady,. The Marian Library Staff

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