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- ↑ JStor website, Luis Martín García, the Jesuit General of the Modernist Crisis (1892-1906): On Historical Criticism, article by David G. Schultenover, published in The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 3 (Jul., 2003), pp. 434-463
- ↑ JHIA website
- 1 2 Historia Domus website, ARSI’
- ↑ ARSI website, Journal AHS
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