Secretary’s book of the Sacred Heart Sodality attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The volume provides a record of total numbers of male and female members of the sodality from 1927-1959. Information is also give in relation to attendance at meetings and at Sunday Masses. The end of the volume contains a list of prefects of the sodality in 1943 and in 1956-7. The title page gives the name of a Miss M. Kendrick as secretary in Sept. 1927.
Minute book of the Council of the Secular Franciscans attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The minutes are signed by the President of the SFO. The minutes refer to building works on the Third Order Chapel, general finances, arrangements for pilgrimages and retreats and matters pertaining to attendance and observance.
Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch Sketch map of premises numbered 24 and 25 [Bow Street] demised by Patrick Regan to the Capuchins. (See CA CS/2/2/4/14). Manuscript annotations refer to the mortgages on said premises. The sketch map is drawn onto a printed map of premises in Christ Church Place at the junction of Fishamble Street in Dublin. The reverse is annotated in pencil with a sketch of various premises and plots off Church Street and endorsed with the names of the various owners and lessors.
This series contains records relating to the Third Order of St. Francis confraternity (later the Secular Franciscan Order) and other lay sodalities attached to St. Mary of the Angels, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin.
Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC and others for preparing a deed of conveyance to vest Church property in nine members of the community as joint tenants and for a power of attorney from Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC (resident in Tasmania) to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC. Total cost: £33 5s 4d. 2 copies. With letters from Thomas J. Furlong to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC referring to a deed executed by Miss Maher on 19 Aug. 1897 conveying the property bequeathed to her following the death of her brother (Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, died 10 Sept. 1894) to the Capuchin community on Church Street.
Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC for services rendered in respect of the purchase of premises on Bow Street and Brown Street. Totals: £21 0s 3d; £26 1s 0d.
Letter from John Gore to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. referring to a plan to purchase The Hermitage in Rathfarnham, Dublin, for the National University of Ireland. He encloses a copy letter from James H. North affirming that William Woodbyrne will accept £6,000 as a purchase price for the house.
Costs of Darley, Orpen & Synnott, solicitors, 30-31 Kildare Street, Dublin, to the Capuchin friars, Church Street, in securing a lease (18 Feb. 1927) from John Jameson & Son, Ltd. of certain premises on Bow Street. The costs amounted to £23 4s 9d. With cover letter.
Souvenir printed booklet with photographs of the exterior and interior of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The booklet includes photographs of: ‘The High Altar during forty hours’ adoration’. ‘The Interior showing gallery and organ’. ‘The Calvary adjoining Sacred Heart Chapel’. ‘The Interior of the Sacred Heart Chapel’. The booklet includes a typescript insert which reads: ‘Stations of the Cross in Community Choir, Church Street, Dublin, were erected by V.R. Fr. Peter Bowe of Tullaroan, Guardian, December 17th 1900. Note to this effect on back of First Station’.