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- 28 Mar. 1908 (Creation)
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2 pp; manuscript
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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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Copy letter from Fr. Peter Bowe, Provincial Minister, to James J. Ryan expressing his deep gratitude for Ryan’s previous letter and confirms that he has officially written to Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia. He shares his prayers that success will crown Ryan’s noble efforts to open a mission field in America for the ‘Irish Sons of St. Francis’. Father Peter promises to share the archbishop’s final decision as soon as he hears it, though he notes that Ryan will likely hear the news first locally. Closing on a personal note, Father Peter mentions that there is ‘no ballplaying going on’ since Ryan ‘carried off the Championship to America’.