Identity area
Reference code
IE CA WA/1/11/4
Title
Copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon to Fr. Sylvester Mulligan
Date(s)
- 14 Dec. 1927 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
3 pp; typescript
Context area
Name of creator
(26 January 1874-24 June 1938)
Repository
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Vicar Provincial, to Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Definitor General, referring to matters concerning the Irish Capuchin missions in the United States. Father Edwin reports a ‘long-standing grievance’ among friars in American houses (specifically in Abbottstown, Lincoln, Los Angeles, and several on the coast) regarding their lack of a vote in the Provincial Chapter. He also stresses the absolute necessity of establishing ‘one or two good houses in the East’ (the Atlantic coast) to secure the ‘money and vocations’ needed to fully develop their missions in the West.