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- 15 Dec. 1923 (Creation)
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2 pp; manuscript
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John Hyland was born near the village of Lanesborough in County Longford on 7 December 1881. He joined the Capuchin Franciscans in October 1900 and took Martin as his religious name. He was ordained to the priesthood by Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory, at St. Kieran’s College in Kilkenny on 16 March 1907. He held a variety of offices within the Order mainly in the communities at Holy Trinity Friary and at Rochestown College in County Cork. For several years he was Professor of Canon Law in Rochestown and was later appointed guardian (local superior) of the community. He was later transferred to Holy Trinity in Cork city and served two terms as guardian of this foundation. He took a keen interest in the Third Order of St. Francis lay confraternity attached to Holy Trinity Church. He also acted as spiritual director to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He died while attempting to recuperate from a bout of influenza in Glengariff in County Cork. He was buried in the cemetery attached to Rochestown Friary.
Baptismal name: John Hyland
Religious name: Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 7 Dec. 1881
Place of birth: Lanesborough, County Longford
Name of father: Patrick Hyland (Farmer)
Name of mother: Brigid Hyland (née Brennan)
Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 28 Oct. 1900
Date of first profession: 1 Nov. 1901
Date of final profession: 24 June 1905
Date of ordination (as priest): 16 Mar. 1907
Educational attainments: BCL degree, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Date of death: 2 Apr. 1933
Place of death: Roche’s Hotel, Glengariff, County Cork (He was guardian of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork at the time of his death).
Place of burial: Cemetery, Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork
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A catalogue listing the administrative, legal, and historical records preserved within the local archives of the Franciscan Capuchin Monastery in Rochestown, County Cork, compiled and signed by Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., Guardian. The record comprises an inventory of the community’s safe deposits, institutional chronicles, and title deeds tracing the land and personnel development of the Irish Capuchin Province from 1852 up to 1923. The first leaf chronicles foundational property and construction documents, detailing an 1852 abstract of title and an 1860 conveyance involving Miss Ellen Maria Harris Purcell, an 1873 novitiate building contract made by Barry & McMullen with Fr. Cherubini Mazzini, historical notes on the 1878 building of the Rochestown Church, and institutional records documenting the 1886 transfer of the Seraphic School. It also inventories correspondence from Dr. O’Callaghan (Bishop of Cork) regarding the Father Mathew Centenary, letters from Fr. Bernard of Andermatt, Minister General, and biographical notes on benefactors Timothy Mahony and Edward Dunne. The second leaf tracks ongoing estate management and community life, logging letters from Mr. Stanton, Solicitor, regarding the purchase of the Rochestown woodlands, insurance policies, plans for the premises’ water supply and sewage networks, an unbuilt church plan, and a plan of the Rochestown Cemetery matching names to the religious buried therein. It concludes by noting the storage of other house papers, including wills of members of the Order, files relative to the establishment of the Third Order, the private diary of Pierce A. Riordan, records of missions, and a master register containing the ‘Names of those received into the Order since Oct. 28th, 1875’.