ORDO ADMINISTRANDI SACRAMENTA
Baltimore: Joannis D. Toy, 1824. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Leather bound. 132p. Bound in full leather. Pocket-size book measuring 3x5 inches. Good condition. Ex-convent library with their name stamped on the inside front cover. CINCINNATI ARCHBISHOP JOHN B. PURCELL'S COPY. Contains his signature on the title page plus two-page handwritten note tipped in at the front of the book. The note, which is in Purcell's hand, is titled "Brevior Formula" and is a brief guide to the administration of baptism. Item #1259498
Interesting book of Catholic Ritual issued for priests in the United States in 1824. Parsons, Early Catholic Americana, p. 197. John B. Purcell was Archbishop of Cincinnati from 1850-1883. He presided over a period of tremendous growth for the Catholic Church in America because of the swell of European Catholic immigrants to Ohio. Although he brought in many positive institutions to the Cincinnati archdiocese, he ended his final years in disgrace after the collapse of a private bank he had started to provide banking services for immigrants. A rare and interesting piece of Catholic Americana.
Price: $350.00