Item 1 - Appeal from English Capuchin Missionaries in Mendocino County

1 p.; clipping

A printed appeal written by Father Raymund OFM Cap., a Capuchin missionary operating in Mendocino County, California. Sent from the English Province to care for three parishes and twenty-five stations scattered along the rugged coastline, Father Raymund describes the extreme difficulties of serving a vast, forested territory populated mostly by impoverished Portuguese and Italian immigrants. He notes that one of his church buildings (a barn) is in desperate need of a $1,500 repair to withstand severe Pacific storms. Unable to raise funds locally, he writes to the ‘Fathers and Brothers in St. Francis’ in the Eastern United States, requesting they publish his appeal for charity in their monthly publication, ‘The Seraphic Home Journal’. Accompanying the text is a group photograph of the friars taken during their annual retreat.