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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News The president of the American CathoUc Historical Association, Uta-Renate Blumenthal, upon the recommendation of the first vice-president, David J. O'Brien, has appointed Georgette Dorn of the Library of Congress and Christopher Kauffman of the CathoUc University ofAmerica co-chairmen of the Committee on Program for the Association's seventy-ninth annual meeting, which wUl be held inWashington, D.C, onJanuary 8-10, 1999. Those who wish to propose papers or (preferably) complete sessions should write by January 13, 1998, to Professor Kauffman Ln care of the Department of Church History, The CathoUc University ofAmerica,Washington, D.C. 20064; telephone and fax: 202319 -5099. Congresses, Conferences, Meetings, Symposia, CoUoquia, and Lectures Under the auspices ofThe Center for the Book in the Library of Congress in co-operation with the Interpretive Programs Office, the Folger Institute, and the Washington CoUegium for the Humanities a program was held in the Thomas Jefferson BuUding of the Library of Congress onJune 4, 1997, to mark the opening of an exhibition entitled "Let There Be Light:WUUam Tyndale and the Making of the EngUsh Bible." The speakers were David Scott Kastan of Columbia University and David DanieU of the University of London, and their topics were "The Noyse of the New Bible: ReUgion and PoUtics in Henrician England," and "WUUam Tyndale: Courage and Genius behind the EngUsh Bible." The exhibition ,which closed on September 6, included the first printed EngUsh translation ofthe New Testament of 1526, the Cologne Fragment of 1525 (ten sheets ofthe same, printed by Peter QuenteU before his press was shut down), and other books and documents from the Library of Congress and the British Library. The exhibition was previously shown at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CaUfornia , and at the NewYork Public Library. The Library of Congress is offering for sale the British Library's handbook,Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making ofthe English Bible. The centenary of the death of Father Augustus Tolton (1854-1897), the first black priest born in the United States and founder of the first black CathoUc church in Chicago, who was ordained in Rome on AprU 25, 1886, was celebrated on July 12-13, 1997, in Quincy, Illinois, where he had attended school 819 820NOTES AND COMMENTS and received the sacrament of confirmation. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., of the St. Meinrad School ofTheology, deUvered an address. Roy Bauer, pastor of St. Peter Church in Quincy and co-chairman of the Father Tolton Centennial PUgrimage, has pubUshed a twenty-eight-page booklet on the priest's IUe entitled "They CaUed Him Father Gus" and has placed a statue of him across from a church haU named in his honor. A symposium commemorating the bicentenary of the founding of Mission San Fernando, Rey de España, was held in the mission church in Mission HiUs, CaUfornia, on September 6, 1997. In the morning papers were read by John R. Johnson of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on "The Indians of San Fernando Mission," by Doyce B. Nunis,Jr., emeritus of the University of Southern California, on "The Friars of San Fernando Mission, 1797-1835," and by David Hornbeck of the CaUfornia State University, Northridge, on "The Economic life of San Fernando Mission." In the afternoon Norman Neuerburg, emeritus of the CaUfornia State University, Domínguez,presented "New Insights into the Convento BuUding: An Archaeological and Historical Résumé," and FrancisJ. Weber, director of San Fernando Mission, spoke on "San Fernando, Rey de España: Its Role in the New MiUennium." A coUoquim on "Port-Royal et Ie Protestantisme" was held at MontpelUer on September 25-27, 1997. Among the twenty-eight scholars who presented papers were Jacques Gres-Gayer of the Catholic University of America ("L'idée d'ÉgUse chez les jansénistes et chez les protestants") and Otto SeUes of Hamilton , Ontario ("Convulsions à Paris et dans les Cévennes"). The quincentenary ofthe birth of PhiUpp Melanchthon was commemorated by a lecture given by Matthias Asche of Tübingen in the Universität Nikolakloster in Passau on September 30, 1997, during a meeting of the GeseUschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum. At...

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