This week the Vincentiana Collections in Archives and Special Collections of DePaul University’s Richardson Library has purchased a copy of the 1782 parlementary registration of the papal act conferring responsibility for the former Jesuit missions in the Levant to the Congregation of the Mission. With the definitive dissolution of the Society of Jesus by the papacy in 1773, the French king had requested that the Lazaristes be granted responsibility for the former Jesuit missions in the Levant.