Item 33 - Death and Corporation Condolences for Father Chrysostom Sutton

1 p.; clipping

Newspaper clippings documenting the death, biographical history, and public mourning surrounding Father Chrysostom Sutton OFM Cap., who succumbed to the influenza pandemic at the age of 41 on 11 November 1918. The first clipping records a solemn meeting of the Kilkenny Corporation where the Mayor, Alderman Potter, and Councillor Wall pass a vote of condolence to the priest’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sutton of Cork, and the Franciscan community. The civic leaders hail Father Chrysostom as a ‘martyr’ who sacrificed his own frail constitution by selflessly visiting and comforting the poor night and day in Walkin Street and adjacent virus-stricken districts.

The second column features an extensive personal obituary detailing his life milestones, including his early education by the Christian Brothers in his native Cork City, his 1898 entry into the Capuchin Novitiate at Rochestown, his higher studies at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and his final roles as Master of Novices and Director of the Third Order in Kilkenny. The record concludes by noting his final interment beneath a simple Celtic Cross in Foulkstown Cemetery, County Kilkenny.