Primary contact
1A Waltham Street, CoogeeSydney, New South Wales 2034
Identity area
Identifier
daa/139
Authorized form of name
Congregation of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Archives, Sydney
Parallel form(s) of name
- Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu (MSC) Archives
- Missionnaires du Sacre Coeur
Other form(s) of name
Type
- Religious
Contact area
Archivist
Type
Address
Street address
1A Waltham Street, Coogee
Locality
Sydney
Region
New South Wales
Country name
Postal code
2034
Telephone
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Note
Description area
History
MSC stands for Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. The initials MSC come from the Latin, Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis, (Missionnaires du Sacre Coeur in French), the name of the Religious Congregation founded by Fr. Jules Chevalier at Issoudun, France in 1854. It is an international order of Brothers and Priests within the Catholic Church numbering about 1900 working in over 55 countries, on six continents.
The MSC first came to Sydney from France in 1885, in order to establish a supply base for their new missions in New Guinea that had been founded in 1882 near Rabaul, on the island of New Britain.
The MSC originally settled in the Eastern suburbs of the expanding city of Sydney. Within a few years the congregation began to accept local Australian vocations and a mission seminary was established at the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington (opened 1897). The foundation continued to grow and within a few years a separate MSC Australian Province was established in 1905 with Father Pierre Marie Treand as the first Provincial.
Geographical and cultural context
Mandates/Sources of authority
Administrative structure
Officer in charge: Archivist
Records management and collecting policies
Any material connected to the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, eg books, letters, photographs, articles, art works, music, provincial, general and local documents.
Buildings
Holdings
- MSC Provincial House: Letters 1895- (55m);
- Photographs, videos 1895- (15m);
- House, local, Provincial General documents 1895- (18m).
- MSC Kensington: Amendments 1895- (3m).
- MSC Houses Worldwide: MSC Books, Periodicals 1895- (151m);
- MSC sermons, retreats, 1930- (12m).
- MSC bulletins, newsletters, magazines, 1895- (12m).
- Australian publishers: Australian history books, 1890- (25m).
- Australian publishers: Catholic Church in Australia, 1895- (30m).
Quantity: 328m
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