The collection contains materials related to the national office of AOS in Washington DC, correspondences, port files, and materials generated by Monsignor Vincent A. Yzermans. The collection also contains publications, including the Catholic Maritime News and conference proceedings, oral histories, sometimes sold to catechize Filipino seafarers, video tapes documenting activities of the ports, plaques used to identify the donors of Communion kits for priests to use to say Mass and other artifacts, photographs, negatives, and slides of ports and priests involved with the AOS, and books.
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