The subseries contains letters to Capuchin friars in Kilkenny concerning missions, retreats, the appointment of confessors and notices of jubilees, anniversaries and deaths. Many of the letters are from the Provincial Minster to the guardians of the Friary and relate to the internal administration of the Order. The section includes a large register book (CA KK/1/3/1) which contains copies of numerous circular letters and memoranda from Ministers General and Provincial Ministers.
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’.
Letter to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, referring to the recent National Temperance Congress. The letter affirms that the ‘most efficient way of reaping the fruits of the Congress is by the formation in this city without further delay … of a branch of the “Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association” similar to those established in in the other centres throughout Ireland …’. The letter is signed by Robert Branigan, Thomas Cantwell JP, Thomas Hayden and William J. Cleere. The letter encloses a list of 107 names (with address) in support of the foundation of the aforementioned branch.
Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. The first page of the volume contains a listing of the number of masses said for the Minister General and benefactors for 1979-1985. The entries are periodically signed by the guardian.
Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The volume includes the number of masses said by various celebrants and the monthly totals of masses offered for the house, for benefactors, for brothers and for various suffrages. The entries are periodically signed by the guardian and by the Provincial Bursar.
Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The volume includes the number of masses said by various celebrants and the monthly totals of masses offered for the house, for benefactors, for brothers and for various suffrages. The entries are periodically signed by the guardian and by the Provincial Bursar.
Notebook containing a diary of Sunday mass celebrants at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes lists of priests celebrating mass at the Presentation Convent, at the Auxiliary Hospital, at the Maynooth Mission to China 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, the Presentation Convent and at other locations.
