The Catholics of Harvard Square ed. by Jeffrey Wills (review)

148BRIEF NOTICES tides—nine in French, three in German, and three in Italian. Though he has also published a significant study on the medieval cult of Mary Magdalen at Vézelay, these articles concern die patristic era. As the title of the collection indicates, most ofthem deal withworship and hagiography. Many were written on the occasion of, or in connection with, the appearance of book-length publications on related subjects such as his monographs on the cult of the martyrs in North Africa or on biblical themes in the acts of the martyrs. One article included here, on the Eucharist in Tertullian, has already appeared in English translation. Other subjects treated include: the cult of the Aposties Peter and Paul in the early Roman liturgy for June 29; the eucharistie significance of the phrase "figura corporis et sanguinis Domini" in Tertullian, Hippolytus, and Ambrose; the date of the first letter in the collection of Cyprian's correspondence; the cult of Hippolytus at Porto; the Platonic theme of the "crucified just man" in pagan and early Christian authors; the differing levels of culture in Cyprian and contemporary African bishops; and, finally, "benedictio" in Augustine. Most of the material is concerned with literary rather than archaeological sources. While treating disparate subjects, the articles are centered on a few themes and it is useful to have them brought together in a collection such as this. Robert B. Eno, S.S. (The Catholic University ofAmerica) Wills, Jeffrey (Ed.). The Catholics of Harvard Square. (Petersham, Massachusetts : Saint Bede's Publications. 1993. Pp. viii, 212. »2295 clothbound;»15.95 paperback.) The book is "partly a history, partly a collection of sources." The history consists of six brief sections: a sketch of the parish of St. Paul in Cambridge, Massachusetts; following are studies of the immigrant community served by the parish, two priests native to the parish who in the early twentieth century directed the office ofthe Propagation ofthe Faith ofthe Archdiocese ofBoston, the liturgical practices of the parish, and the relations between official Catholicism and both Harvard and Radcliffe colleges. The collection of sources presents the reminiscences of twenty contemporary voices who have been churched at St. Paul's. In conclusion, there is an appendix listing the priests and sisters who have served in the parish and in the Roman Catholic chaplaincy to Harvard University, as well as the principals of the parish grammar school, which closed in 1974. Lavishly and arrestingly illustrated and handsomely printed, The Catholics ofHarvard Square is an intelligently celebratory work that will interest those who have belonged to the parish or been served by the chaplaincy. Social historians of American Catholicism will find in it a partial confirmation of and a frequently instructive supplement to Paula Kane's recent Separatism and BRIEF NOTICES1 49 Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920. Robert E. Sullivan (St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts) Wood, Diana (Ed.). Martyrs and Martyrologies. Papers read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. [Studies in Church History, Volume 30.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Blackwell Publishers. 1993- Pp. xviii, 497. »64.95.) Most readers of this journal are probably familiar with this British series. This volume, one of the longest, comprises some thirty-three contributions which, as in the past, study the subject indicated in the title in all periods of church history. Four papers study the patristic period, ten the medieval, nine the Reformation and early modern period, and ten the last two centuries. About half of the papers deal with British church history, if we include one on St. George. Ofcourse, the spectrum ofsubjects studied necessarily involves a flexible treatment of the matter indicated in the title. Thus the longest essay in the volume treats British fundamentalism in the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which no one was killed. Some of the most noteworthy essays include one on Roman law and the execution of women in the ancient persecutions by Chris Jones; the attitude of Reformation martyrologists toward medieval dissenters by Euan Cameron, and the relationship between religion and politics in John Foxe's writings by David Loades. Of particular interest to Catholics are treatments of Margaret Clitherow by Claire...