Author: MAZZUCHELLI, Samuel
Title: The Memoirs of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P.
Description: Chicago, The Priory Press, 1967. Hardcover. Foreword by James P. Shannon. Small 4to. Grey cloth with blue lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 329pp. Large foldout map tipped to rear pastedown. Very good/very good. Tight, quite nice facsimile reprint of the 1915 first English language edition. Mazzuchelli (1806-64) was a Milanese clergyman who became a pioneering and influential missionary and architect in southwest Wisconsin and northwest Illinois. This unusual copy is inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink on front flyleaf "To: Mother Mary Matilda -- / With my prayers and joyful / wishes this feast day / Msgr. Justin A. Driscoll / April 8, 1967." Driscoll (1920-84) served as president of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa from1967 to 1970 and as Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota from 1970 to 1984. Mild ex-library copy, with very few and discreet markings. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest Religion


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