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- 1918 (Creation)
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5 items; typescript
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Baptismal name: Edward Bowe
Religious name: Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 19 Sept. 1856
Place of birth: Tullaroan, County Kilkenny
Name of father: Thomas Bowe (b. 3 Nov. 1816)
Name of mother: Ellen Bowe (née Maher) (b. 1815)
Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 8 Apr. 1877
Date of first profession: 21 Apr. 1878
Date of final profession: 8 Sept. 1881
Date of ordination (as priest): 27 Aug. 1882
Leadership positions: Provincial Minister: 1901-4, 1907-10, 1916-9, 1922-5; Provincial Definitor (Councillor): 1887-90, 1890-3, 1893-6, 1895-8, 1898-1901, 1913-6; Custos: 1904, 1910, 1919, 1925
Date of death: 25 Nov. 1926
Place of death: Church Street Friary, Dublin
Place of burial: Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
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File containing copies of circular letters addressed to the Rochestown community from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The content chiefly addresses the coordination of jubilarian celebrations honouring friars reaching major milestones of religious profession or ordination, arrangements and schedules for canonical provincial visitations, and various matters of routine institutional administration. Includes a letter (1 November 1918) enacting religious provisions in direct response to the 1918 influenza pandemic, officially dispensing all religious within the province from the mandatory ‘Fast of our Holy Rule’ traditionally slated to begin the following day on the Feast of All Souls. To combat the spread of the disease, the letter mandates liturgical adaptations, ordering communities to append a specific Versicle and prayer to St. Roch (the patron saint against pestilence) during their daily post-dinner visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament.