The 2024 Mary Dooley Lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at 4:30 PM in the Library Theater at Elms College, Chicopee. Dr. Katherine Dugan (Springfield College) will present “The Spiritual Lives of Marian Shrines in the U.S.” Dr. Dugan is co-editor (with Karen Park) of the new volume American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of USCatholicism (Fordham, 2024). The twelve essays in this collection will explore how Catholics have used Marian devotion to make an imprint on the physical and religious landscape of the United States.