Scope and Content Two petitions involving Samuel Mazzuchelli. A positio (i.e., a volume containing documentation assembled to support his cause for canonization as a saint), "Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P., Missionary to the United States: a documentary account of his life, virtues, and reputation for holiness." Also a copy of The Memoirs of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P. (Chicago: Priory Press, 1967) and a mimeographed index to the book prepared by...

Scope and Content Letters, 1828-1930, from the United States to the central council at Paris (27 reels of microfilm) arranged by diocese; and letters to and minutes of the central council at Lyon, 1822-1900, arranged chronologically (15 reels of microfilm). Correspondents include many members of the American hierarchy, among them Joseph Sadoc Alemany, August M. Blanchet, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Timothy Corbett, Joseph Fréri, Henry Granjon, John Baptist Lamy, Joseph P. Macheboeuf, Augustus M....