Scope and Content Chiefly letters received by Joseph Napoleon Perché and papers that had come into his possession, including documents concerning the controversy over the foundation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the early 1830s, involving the founder, Saint Euphrasie Pelletier, and Basil Anthony Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross; also handwritten booklets of notes and instruction, 1824-1831, concerning moral theology, the service of God, contrition, Baptism, and Holy Scripture....

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Circular letters of the Holy Cross Provincial (Indiana Province), 1925-1948, and Superior General, 1908-1946; canon law cases, 1920s-1940s; correspondence and reports of the Committee on Studies, Moreau Seminary, 1937-1941; report "Peter's Pence, Catholic University and Foreign Missions Collections," 1930s; program from his Golden Jubilee, 1974; and pamphlets he collected.