Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.
Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.
Ledger of the monthly income derived from community masses at the Church of St. Francis. Entries are listed under the number of masses said and the amount of money received. Monthly totals are also given. A numbered list (1-124) of mass bequests is extant on pp 339-54. The entries are listed under name, the number of masses to be said, the amount of the bequest, date, with notes re the discharge of the bequest.
Ledger of monthly of income derived from community masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The ledger includes entries relating to mass stipends received which were worth less than 5d. The entries are routinely signed by the Provincial Minister during visitations.
Orders and lists of mass sermons preached by priests at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries are listed under date (usually at Lent, Easter and other religious feast days) and the name of the celebrant. It is noted in the 1903 list that the maximum duration of sermons at mass is twenty minutes. One of the lists is titled ‘Lenten discourses’.
Letters from [Madge Auld?], St. Andrew’s, Queen’s Crescent, Southsea, Hampshire, to Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (1820-1887), referring to a sum of £300 left in trust with Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC ‘to build a chapel [in Kilkenny] where the Third Order Sisters would meet and masses be said for me and mine’. An annotation notes that these letters were from the ‘late Mrs Sullivan of Lacken, Kilkenny’.
The volume contains double entries giving a daily record of ‘mass intentions to be fulfilled’ and ‘mass intentions fulfilled’ at the Friary Church, Kilkenny. The title is given on the first page: ‘1866 Mass Registry, Kilkenny’. The entries are listed under date, the person for whom the mass was said, and the amount of stipend money received. The final page provides a summary of the mass intentions for May 1869 and is signed by Fr. Edward Tommins OSFC, guardian, 2 June 1869.
Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The title is extant on the verso of the first page: ‘Mass book, Friary, Kilkenny, 1 Jan. 1910’. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. The entries were routinely signed by the Provincial Minster at visitations.
Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. The entries were routinely signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations. Monthly totals of masses are also periodically given. The title is given on the inside front cover: ‘Mass ledger opened 1st September 1938’. A manuscript endorsement is also extant: ‘Masses ad intentionem P. Generalis for 1938 – seven monthly and are said 1st Monday of each month’.
