Identity area
Reference code
IE CA WA/9/10/2
Title
Canonical Visitation Report for 1966
Date(s)
- 1966 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
18 pp; typescript and manuscript
Context area
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Canoncial visitation report compiled by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, for the Irish Capuchin custody in the United States. The report includes commentary on the spiritual, physical and financial condition of various churches and friaries in Oregon and California. The report notes that early outposts in Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, were eventually abandoned or ceded, allowing the custody to successfully achieve its goal of consolidating all religious houses exclusively in the Western United States by 1963. A bound volume used by Father Conrad for notes taken during the visitation (June-July 1966) is also extant.