U.S. Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives, Vatican City: A Calendar
FAIN: RO-11935-73
Academy of American Franciscan History (Washington, DC 20043-4440)
Finbar Kenneally (Project Director: March 1973 to present)
To undertake a systematic calendar of two series of documents in the archives of the Propaganda Fide, Rome. The Sacred Congregation "de Propaganda Fide" was established by Pope Gregory XV on January 6, 1622--to direct and correlate the mission work of the whole Catholic Church. Its archives are the richest Roman source for the history of the Catholic Church in the U.S.