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	Search results for Religious    Refine your search Subject Religious Education (2) Catholic Church -- Uni... (1) Clergy (1) Clothing & Dress (1) College Presidents -- ... (1) Show more... When in Indiana 1814-1824 (1) 1840-1856 (1) 1950s-1965 (1) 1952- (1) Where in Indiana Harmony in Posey Count... (1) Marion County -- India... (1) Primarily the West Cen... (1) st Joseph County -- So... (1) results 1-4 of 4 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Name: Subject: Notable For: 1. Saint Theodora Guerin Nuns; Saints; Teachers; Missionaries; Religious education; Religious orders; Women; Clothing & dress; Theodora, Mother, Saint, 1798-1856; Sisters of Providence (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.) Saint Theodora came to Indiana in 1840. She overcame religious, gender, and cultural prejudice and established St. Mary-of-the-Woods, the oldest Catholic women's liberal arts college in the United States.... 2. Rev. Jim Jones Jones, Jim, 1931-1978; Clergy; Peoples Temple; Cults--United States; Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978 Jones was a religious leader who founded the Peoples Temple. He moved the church to California in 1965 and started churches in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He and his followers moved to Jonestown, Guyana... 3. Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh Religious education; Education; University of Notre Dame--Presidents; College presidents--Indiana; Catholic Church--United States--Clergy; Social reformers--United States; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Living Legends; Hesburgh, Theodore Martin, 1917- Rev. Hesburgh is president emeritus of Notre Dame University. He is a national leader in the field of education. During his career he has served on numerous commissions, was chairman of the International... 4. George Rapp Rapp, George,1757-1847; Rappites; Harmony Society; Germans--United States; Harmonists; United States--Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Germans--Indiana In 1814 George Rapp and his followers came up the Wabash River by flatboat and founded the utopian community of Harmonie. The Harmonists were a group of Lutheran dissenters who had left Germany in 1805... select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-4 of 4 item(s)  page 1 of 1 : ( <<  1  >> ) :: previous : next
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