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(RELIGION.) A.M.E. CHURCH.
Journal of Proceedings of the 18th
annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church for the District of Indiana * 21st
Annual Conference * 24th annual Conference and 27th Annual Conference.
four
volumes, uniform 8vo’s, all with wrappers except the Journal for the 21st; some foxing and
general wear, the volume for the 18th with a couple of chips.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Indianapolis, 1857, 1860, 1863 and 1866
[500/750]
565
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(RELIGION.) AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Second,
Third and Fourth Annual Conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
for the Illinois District.
34, 29, and 37 pages, uniform 8vo’s original printed wrappers, some
soiling and early jottings to the covers but condition generally good. Small punch-holes indi-
cating these volumes were no doubt bound together in a larger volume.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Indianapolis, Chicago and Springfield , 1873, 1874, and 1876
[500/750]
A fascinating look at the workings of the A.M. E. Church in Illinois in the decades following
the Civil War. Includes short biographies and eulogies, and an occasional “essay.” In one, the
subject was the “state of the country.” Much more here than the usual “nuts and bolts” of
meeting minutes.
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(RELIGION.) BAKHITA, JOSEPHINE.
What a Blessing it is to Know God.
Josephine Bakhita 1869-1947.
Small commemorative medal: white metal 1 x 2 inches
containing a color photograph of the Sudanese Saint.
Np, [circa 1947]
[350/500]
A SCARCE LITTLE MEDAL OF JOSEPHINE BAKHITA
.
Giuseppina Bakhita (1869-1947) was
born near Darfur, in the Sudan. She was kidnapped by Arab slavers when she was around
seven or eight years old. The slavers, who already had taken her sister, made her march 600
miles to El Obeid where she was sold. Over the course of the next 12 years, she was sold and
re-sold three more times, and cruelly treated by all three masters. In 1883 she was purchased by
an Italian government official who gave her to a kind Italian lady who put her in the care of
the Canossian Sisters of Venice. There she was baptized in 1890 and spent the next 40 years
of her life at their convent at Schio, where she became known as “the little brown sister.” She
was made a saint by John Paul II in 1992.
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RELIGION
LOTS 564-579
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