Many Catholic households have a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church sitting on their shelves. The Archives have some rather special catechisms in our vault. A visit from Fr Merv Duffy SM meant that some of these rare items of local Catholic history were retrieved for viewing.
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In the downstairs hallway of Bishop's House is a framed list of donors who assisted in the building of Bishop's House under Bishop Luck.
This piece came into focus recently when answering a genealogy enquiry. A former colleague asked if I could track a relative who he believed was ...
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Some Rare Finds
Last week I discovered a couple of items that excited my inner historian. They related to key periods in our Catholic history.
The first I discovered when checking that items were stored appropriately. There was a box of books and when I opened the first volume, I saw it had been printed in ...
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