Jesuit Community of Boston College
Biography
The Jesuit Community at Boston College has shaped the administrative, educational, and spiritual life of the institution since its founding in 1863. For more than a century, beginning with John Bapst, SJ (1863–1869), the rector of the community also served as the college's president, joining canonical and civil authority in one office. A separate superior was appointed in 1954 to relieve the rector-president of some community duties, and on January 1, 1971, the presidency became a separate administrative position.
The Community subsequently incorporated as its own legal entity and entered into a formal agreement with the university: the Community received title to St. Mary's Hall and its members were compensated on the same basis as lay colleagues, while the Community supplied personnel and made financial contributions to the university. Its rector continues to sit on the university's Board of Trustees. St. Mary's Hall remains the main residence, and members serve on the faculty and staff, minister at St. Ignatius Parish, and offer retreats and spiritual direction.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
John Louis Bonn, SJ papers
The John Louis Bonn, SJ papers document the life of Bonn, a Jesuit priest, writer, and educator who attended Boston College and taught classics, English, and drama there from 1930-1949. It includes correspondence, ephemera, lecture and staging notes, manuscripts, and photographs.
Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings in this collection have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.
W. Seavey Joyce, SJ, President’s Office records
Collection is closed. Access with permission of office. Departmental records and faculty files containing student records, faculty tenure and promotion files, and other records containing personally identifiable information are closed due to privacy restrictions.
Michael P. Walsh, SJ, President's Office records
Collection is open for research. Series I. Admissions is closed in its entirety due to privacy restrictions, and is stored off-site. A small amount of material in other series is also closed due to privacy restrictions.
Boston College collection of European woodcut prints
Seventeenth-century European woodcut prints including the frontispiece and additional engraved plates from Jerome Nadal's Evangelicae historiae imagines (Antwerp: Jan Galle, 1647), along with two additional loose prints from other Catholic theological works.
Collection is open for research.
Boston College collection of photographic postcards
Collected photographic postcards with blank versos, from Europe and Africa, as well as a few from the United States. The bulk are images of Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and Turkey; while smaller sets document Algeria and Morocco. Photographs are almost entirely black-and-white, with a few hand-colored.
Collection is open for research.