PROJECT O.P.U.S.
PLAN FOR PUBLICATION

Members of the research team Project O.P.U.S. plan to publish an integrated history of the Order of Preachers in the United States compiled from original documents, to be entitled DOMINICAN STUDIES. To be published in four volumes, the series will cover the mission of Dominican friars, sisters, laity and nuns for two centuries, from 1786 to 1986, and will introduce the Spanish friars who first came in 1526 to the land which is now the United States.

Vol . I BEGINNINGS

PRELUDE; THE FIRST PREACHERS

Chapters:

1. Friars from Spain preaching justice, 1526 ff.

2. Preachers in the Service of John Carroll, 1786-1815
   ON MISSION TOGETHER, 1806-1865

3. Foundations in Kentucky, 1806 to 1820:

   Friars of St.Joseph Province

   The mission begun

4. Dominicans on mission together in Kentucky, 1821-1832

   Friars building the Church

   Sisters of the community of St.Catharine as co-workers

   First lay members received at St.Rose

5. Founding the Church in Ohio:

   Itinerant friars from Kentucky

   Beginnings of diocesan ministry, with Bishop Fenwick

   From Kentucky to Somerset: the sisters' new foundation

6. A corridor of ministry in the young nation, to 1865

   To the places and people of the frontier, KY to Michigan

   Movement; identity: mendicants: parishes

   Friars: members, leaders, development, study, spirituality

   Sisters interchangeable; Lay Dominicans

7. Profiles from the Dominican story:

   Angela and Benven Sansbury

   Bishop John Connolly

   Controversials: Wm Harold, John Ryan, Thomas Carbry

   Ann Hanlon

8. Dominicans found the Church in Tennessee:

   A bishop without priests

   Call of sisters to Memphis

   To Nashville from Somerset

9. Foundations in Wisconsin:

   Mazzuchelli on the Mississippi Valley frontier

   A new province at Sinsinawa, 1844: SM ministry to 1864

   Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa to 1865

10. California foundations:

    A bishop for a new State: Joseph S. Alemany to Monterey

    Sadoc Vilarrasa and a new province for the west

    Marie Goemaere and th efirst California sisters (San Rafael)

    Collaboration in the California Church

    DOMINICAN WOMEN ON MISSION FROM EUROPE, 1853--1865

11. A mission to German immigrants:

    Answering a people's need from a Bavarian cloister,1853

    Development of an American congregation (Amityville)

    Tensions and dilemmas concerning status

    Island to nation: the Regensburg tree taking root

12. From Ireland to serve the South:

    A call from an Irish-American parish, 1860

    Response from a Cabra monastery

    Development of the Congregation of St.Mary, New Orleans

13. From Regensburg to Racine: an odyssey

    Journeys of M.Benedicta Bauer and Thomasina Ginker

    Initial trials in three states

    Foundation in Racine, 1862

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