Principles of Edition

The texts presented here are derived from the printed edition (for R. Darricau and B. Peyrous' book) or from documents typed by the Sisters of the Holy Family (for the volumes entitled “Sources”).
The editors guarantee:
– to have eliminated nothing from the texts;
– to have added nothing to the texts unless clearly in brackets [ ];
– to have modified no text save in what regards spelling, punctuation or use of capitals, paying special attention not to alter the thought of the authors.
This translation has been established from the French version of the volumes “Source”. These were made from the originals manuscripts held in the General Archives of the Sisters of the Holy Family in Rome.

Rules of Transcription

The choices made are purely formal and do not affect the meaning of the text. Some punctuation has sometimes been added for the quality of the reading, without distorting the meaning of the sentence. Proper nouns have been matched and modernized. For upper-case letters, we have followed the modern trend to limit the use of upper-case letters, without however trying to get an exact coherence.
Passages added by us are put in square brackets […].

Abbreviations

Current abbreviations have been left; other words are spelled out except those whose sense is uncertain.
art.: article
cf.: confer, compare, see
chap.: chapter
e.g.: for example (exempli gratia)
Fr.: Father
Gen.: General
G.R.: General rules
J.C.: Jesus Christ
Mgr: Monseigneur, His Lordship
Mlle: Mademoiselle, Miss
Mr.: Mister
Mrs.: Mistress
p.: page
par.: paragraphe
P.R.: Particular rules
St.: Saint
Sup.: Superior
vol. volume

Search engine

This “electronic library” gives access to the texts via the table of contents to the left of the screen (click on the yellow dots to read the chosen texts) or, via the index in alphabetical order to the right of the screen. When you search by alphabetical order, click on the red arrows “Hits” to scroll the various documents selected by the search. More information on "how to" in the electronic edition.
As said below, the articles common to some rules are only once published. Therefore in the document 972 (Source 2, card 388), the text is the article 557 from the General Rules of 1844. The notes "G.R. 1851 – Art. 142" informs that this article is the same as article 142 from the General Rules of 1851. The words "General Rules of 1844" (above on the centre of the document) provides the title of the work whose the displayed text belongs to. (For example, in R. Darricau and B. Peyrous' book "DP ch. II,I" (document 18) shows that the displayed text is chapter II, point 1 from the book Father Noailles and the Association of the Holy Family.)

Table of contents

Beside the actual text and the search tool, the website presents the electronic table of contents, under the form of a detailed tree diagram.
Click on “+” to open a node.
Click on “–” to close a node.
Click on the yellow button to display the document in the document window.

Tools for search

All the words in the data base can be researched. For a search, the selected documents (Hits) follow each other in order of the tree diagram of the database, so the hits of a word from R. Darricau et B. Peyrous' book always precede hits of this word from Father Noailles' writings. See Examples of Search.

The indexes

Alphabetical index « A…Z »
Lists all the words of this edition (grammatical words included), except for information covered by the indexes below.
Lots of words are distinguished by initial upper-case or lower-case in the index, even if they are written with an upper-case letter in the texts. This enables different searches for homographs, for example: charity (common noun) – Charity (Sisters of Charity), trinity (Sunday) – Trinity (name of a parish).
The search engine enables the selection of the variant forms of a noun in the same search: click on “Jesus” in the index “J”, then on “Advanced search”, then on “OR”, after on “Jesus Christ” in the index “J”, finally on “Search” to get the result.

Index « Dates »
The index “Dates” gives the listed dates in the texts under the form DD.MM.YYYY (day.month.year). The index refers to the date as it is written in the texts, even if in a different form, for example “next Tuesday”.
An exact date may be selected by introducing this date as DD.MM.YYYY and by clicking on “Skip”.
It is also possible to write the month, the year or the month and the year (MM.YYYY), the button “Skip” gives the first date with the character asked for. Clicking ont the same button “Skip” without modifying the characters requested gives the following date containing the same characters, and so on.
For the dates in the form of “Quasimodo 1839”, for example, if you don't know the exact day (here 07.04.1839), browse the alphabetical index at “Q”, “Quasimodo”.
Recurrent dates (for example: “Schools reopen on 1 October”) are not indexed.

Index « Numbers »
Lists the cardinal and ordinal numbers written in the data base.
– Numbers in Roman numerals are listed in alphabetical order;
– numbers in Arabic numerals in numerical ascending order;
– numbers written in full are listed in the alphabetical index (for example “forty thousand” at letter “F”).

Index « Themes »
This index enables searches on all the themes linked to the cards in the “Sources”.

Index « Writings»
In the volumes “Sources”, the rules written by Father Noailles are not fully reproduced. For example, in the rules of 1851, the articles from this rule which are identical to those of the rules of 1844 are not reproduced; they are just published in the text of the rules of 1844. Thus the reader has to switch from one rule to another. This index avoids this process. By clicking on one of the writings indexed, the search engine gathers all the articles of a given rule, wherever they are published in the volumes.

Examples of search

One word : “conversion”
- Write “conversion” in the white space of the window to the right, then click on “Jump” or press “return” or “enter”.
- Click on the word “conversion” in the alphabetical order index.
- In the English data base, the word “conversion” appears 13 times.
- Go from one occurrence to the other clicking on the arrow “Hits” (red arrows) (10 documents are hit).
- To go to the next document in the corpus, click on the arrow “Docs” (yellow arrows).

A date : “3rd of February 1822”
- Click on the button “Dates”.
- Write 03.02.1822 (with the dots) in the white space of the window to the right, then click on “Skip” or press “return” or “enter”.
- Click on the chosen date in the chronological index.
- This date appears 8 times in the texts.
- Go from one occurrence to the other clicking on the arrow “Hits” (red arrows) (7 documents are hit).
- To go to the following document in the corpus, click the button “Docs” (yellow arrows).

Two words : “miracle” and “eucharist”
- Reinitialize the search by clicking on the magnifying glass (above on the right) (recommended before every “Advanced search”).
- Click on the button “Advanced search” in the window to the right.
- Write “miracle” in the white space.
- Click on “Jump” or press “return” or “enter”.
- Click on “miracle” in the index.
- Click on the button “AND” in the central window.
- Write “eucharist”.
- Click on “Jump” or press “return” or “enter”.
- Click on “eucharist” in the index.
- Click on the button “Search” in the central window to view the results of the search.
There is 1 hit document in which there are at the same time the words “miracle” and “eucharist”.