Image / Painting of the martyrdom of missionary fathers, Solomon Islands, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Painting of the martyrdom of missionary fathers, Solomon Islands, ca.1900-1930
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: The postcard is an artistic representation of a two missionary fathers about to be killed by a number of indigenous men.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "Isole Salomone. Martirio del Vescovo Mons. Giovanni Epalle." ("Solomon Islands. Martyrdom of Bishop Giovanni Epalle.") The back also contains information from the publisher: "MISSIONI D'OCEANIA - Affidate al PP. Maristi -- Casa Madre dei PP. Maristi: Roma, Via Poerio 63 - Periodico Missionario: L'Araldo di Maria - Roma, Via Cernaia 14a." ("MISSIONS OF OCEANIA - Entrusted to the Marist Fathers -- Mother House of the Marist Fathers: Rome, Via Poerio 63 - Missionary Periodical: The Herald of Mary - Rome, Via Cernaia 14a.") The Marists were a Catholic missionary order.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13176 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0089
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13176
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-010-0000-0089.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Clergy
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Oceania
Solomon Islands
Source: YDS/RG101/010/0000/0089 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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