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- 1923-1929 (Creation)
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23 pp; 32 cm x 25 cm; Bound volume; clipping
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Newspaper clipping relating to the parish ministries run by the Irish Capuchins in California. The clippings relate to foundations and missionary work in Watts, Los Angeles (1923) and to the establishment by Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. and Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap. of a school in Watts in 1924. The newspapers include ‘The Watts Review’ and ‘The Tidings’. The file also includes printed leaflets and invitation cards re dedications and blessings of the church and school in Watts. The volume also contains:
Clippings re the foundation of the Church of Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame near San Francisco in 1927. With articles taken from ‘The Monitor’ and ‘The San Francisco Leader’ (1929).
Santa Inés Mission: The clippings relate to the takeover of Old Mission by the Irish Capuchin friars in 1924. Includes pamphlets on the history of the mission building.