Letter from Mgr. Patrick Boylan to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Finbar O’Mahony O.S.B., the Superior of the Benedictine University Hostel. He has been appointed Conferencier to the Sisters at the Nunciature by Mother Mary. He will not however be 40 years old until the following year and so perhaps he can be allowed to have weekly or monthly conferences with the Sisters while making it clear he has not been appointed Confessor. He notes ‘…Mother Mary has never had the slightest tendency to look on the authorities of the Dublin Diocese as deserving any special recognition or respect’.

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11 April 1941 - 29 July 1949 74 items
Correspondence on: holding sales of work. Canonical status of congregation Circumstances of sisters undertaking medical studies Edits the archbishop required in the film Visitation prior to giving permission for it to be shown in Dublin. Letter to Archbishop Dalton (Armagh) re same and Dalton's response.

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4 January 1950 - 21 November 1960 88 items
Extensive Correspondence re fundraising and development of property at Booterstown. Sisters replace Franciscan Brothers at Nunciature Archbishop supports their petition to be granted Pontifical status. Statistical and Historical Summary of Institute dated 10 May 1960

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7 April 1961 - 17 July 1962 64 items
Canonical Status of Institute Confirmed: Decretum Laudis brought personally from Rome by Cardinal Agaginian (Delegate to the Patrician Congress). Hostel at Booterstown, Rosemount, approved for lay and religious medical students, becomes a House of Formation (domus formata) Plans for International Fundraising for the Silver Jubilee Year of the Institute and the proposed initiatives of a Dublin Committee to make Mother Martin's Silver Jubilee result in extensive and testy responses from the archbishop.

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8 August 1962 to mid-1970 56 items
Correspondence re Sales of Work and location of annual retreats Mother M Martin to receive Honorary Fellowship of College of Surgeons New Superior-General elected 1969 - Mother Stella Phelan Archbishop directs Monsignor Boylan not to appoint as confessor any priest proposed by Mother Martin. A typescript Thoughts of a Sister, Covering Letter Sr Isabelle Smyth Collection of postcards of religious house in Rome without explanation of their presence in this collection

This file originally contained ACase of Conscience,' from a sister who was a patient in St Vincent's Hospital, Fairview. File was removed at unknown date.

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7 August 1964 - mid-1970 14 items
Papers relating to Special and Extraordinary General Chapter 1969-1970 Two Cases Exclaustration

XLIV/70 Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate
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22 October 1970 - 22 December 1970 3 items
Correspondence re presence of an unauthorised community in the diocese.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Sensi stating that he has arranged with the Senior Vicar General for Fr. John Molony, senior curate at the Pro Cathedral, to act as Ordinary Confessor to the Nunciature Sisters and Canon M.V. Burke as Extraordinary Confessor.

Letter from +Sensi to +McQuaid thanking him for the arrangements for Confessor’s for the Sisters at the Nunciature.