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Catholic Church -- Illinois

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Diocese of Alton Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: DAT
Scope and Content A few letters dating 1877-1881 with typewritten abstracts, legal documents, and clippings, having to do with the diocese and Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes; also a twentieth-century handwritten biographical sketch of Bishop Baltes.
Dates: 1877-1900s.

Diocese of Peoria Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: DPE
Scope and Content Manuscript of an oration by Bishop Spalding delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 1886; and material concerning Peoria collected by Sister M. Annella, OP, most of it in the form of letters in reply to Sr. Annella's requests for information, 1949-1953.
Dates: 1886-1953

Parish and Institutional Records Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: PIC
Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...
Dates: 1749-1979