General Direction

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Annual newsletter for the Cause of Querbes from the International Querbes Commission and published by the General Direction located in Coteau-du-Lac, Canada. Includes extracts from the reports of each Province. 15 annales in total from 1951-1965. Bound volume of the first 9 annual newsletters, Nos. 1-9, 1951-1959. Individual copies of Nos. 10-15, 1960-1965.

Scope and Contents The Annuaire is an annual publication from the General Direction which contains information on the state of the Institute, biographical sketches of the deceased and history of the Provinces and ministries. The Annuaire collection is considered to be a historical encyclopedia of the Viatorian community for those years. The volumes located in the research area (Set 1) are a mix of different printings, some bound in black covers, some in green covers, one in burgundy. Some have 1 year per...

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Circulars are letters to the Viatorian Community with announcements and directives from the Superior General. This collection begins with a published booklet of Louis Querbes' circulars (1839-1859) and continues through today. Some are loose, individual hand written or typed letters, some are bound volumes.

Scope and Contents This is a compilations of documents, including correspondence, evidence and various writings of Fr. Louis Querbes, consisting of 15 volumes. Volumes 1-14 have red hard cover bindings and were published by the General Direction between 1955 and 1960.  Each volume generally covers a period of years.  A few volumes have documents that are without dates.  Volume 15  was published in 1995 and has a turqoiuse soft cover binding.  It includes various writings over a wide range of time,...

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This collection is a compliation of unedited correspondence regarding the Missions in North America - both St. Louis, Missouri USA (vol. 1) and L'Industrie, Canada (vols. 2-5).  Six volumes total.  Soft covers.

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This collection consists of 2 volumes of documents.  Both volumes contain correspondence to and letters from Fr. Querbes and other manuscripts regarding the founding of the Institute of the Clerics of St. Viator.  Volume 1 contains documents regarding Fr. Querbes and civil and diocesan approval.  Volume 2 contains documents regarding Fr. Querbes and the approval of Rome.

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Brother Pierre Liauthaud, later Father, was the first disciple of Fr. Querbes and the first Novice Master at Vourles. This is a four volume collection. Volumes 1 and 2 are a compilation of the correspondence to and from Brother Liauthaud. Volumes 3 and 4 are the instructions on the statutes of the society used for the novices and parish cathecists, published in Vourles in 1849.

Scope and Contents Over the period 1960-1977, the General Direction published the correspondence that  Fr. Querbes received.  This compilation of documents is bound together in 44 volumes, each volume corresponding to one or two years.  In 1983, an alphabetical index of proper names was published for the 44 volumes.  Then in 1996, volume 45 - a supplement was published containing the correspondence that  Fr. Querbes received regarding the founding of the Clerics of St. Viator from 1807-1844.  Volumes 1-8 are...

Scope and Contents "When meeting together, the General Council and the Provincial Superiors constitute the Extraordinary General Council. The Extraordinary General Council is normally a consultive body.  Its purpose is to promote an effective solidarity between the General Council and the provinces and thus to strengthen the unity of the Congregation.  It is called upon to give its advice to the General Council on important questions and exceptional situations that the General Council submits to...

Scope and Contents A publication of the 1969 General Chapter.  A general chapter is the assembly of provincial delegates coming together to discuss the "business" of the congregation.  The goal of the publication FOCUS was to provide information, that is to report each day's work of the assembly.  Confreres have the right to know what is happening at the general chapter.  Focus was edited, in French, English and Spanish, on the same day, under the responsibility of its director. FOCUS appears to exist only for...