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This series contains material from Sister Margaret Ferris’s 1990 trip to Rome, Italy. While there, she acted as a correspondent for the Catholic News Times at the 1990 Synod on the Formation of Priests in Rome. Included here is her press badge and correspondence with the Catholic New Times detailing her credentials and the type of information she needed to record. While there, Sister Margaret met Pope John Paul II and received a rosary, photographs of this and the rosary itself are present here. It also includes photographs of the trip and pamphlets for Saint Francis in Assisi and the Vatican City.

This series contains a daily travel journal entitled "Holy Land Tour January 24 - February 7 1983" written by Sister Marie Celine Janisse and a typed letter she wrote to family and friends about her trip.

This series contains personal reflections and accounts by Sister Margaret Ferris about her travels. There are three travel diaries in this series: one from her trips to Quebec, Canada from 1959 to 1963, one from her travels to Peru and Florida, USA in 1981, and one from her pilgrimage to Le Puy, France in 2003. There is also a typed chronicle of the 2003 pilgrimage entitled Pilgrimage 2003 A Return to Our Roots and a lace bookmark from Le Puy. A large scrapbook from Sister Margaret Ferris’s trip to California, USA from 1984 to 1985 is also present. The scrapbook contains drawings and personal accounts by Sister Margaret, photographs, clippings, and ephemera from the trip. Locations of note within the scrapbook include Detroit, Oakland, San Francisco, Muir Woods National Monument, Berkeley, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Pasadena, Monterey, Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe.