Draft letter of Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, guardian, to the Holy Trinity Friary reminding the friars of their duties and affirming that he give them ‘every freedom and latitude consistent with our Franciscan Capuchin Life’.
File compiled by Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, relating to wartime restrictions during ‘The Emergency’. The documents include notices and fliers regarding tea and sugar rationing, a notice to the public regarding the issuing of respirators as an air raid precaution and a public flier concerning the use of a ration book
Letters from the Most Rev. Cornelius Lucey (1902-1982), Bishop of Cork, to the guardians of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The letters concern the appointment of ordinary and extraordinary confessors for convents of religious women and at hospitals in County Cork.
Alphabetical register of the Association of the Honour of the Most Blessed Sacrament attached to Holy Trinity Church. Entries are listed under the name and address of members.
Newsletter of the Tertiaries of St. Francis, Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The newsletter provides information from the directors and councils of the local Third Order of St. Francis.
Copies of Mission News providing details of the personnel of the Capuchin missions in South Africa and in Zambia. Reference is made by Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. to work at the mission station at Senanga on the banks of the Zambezi River. Other topics include distressing scenes at the Capuchin mission of St. Anthony’s in Sioma as a result of warfare in neighbouring Namibia (otherwise known as South West Africa). The text refers to the relief efforts of Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Fr. Patrick Mayungo OFM Cap. (Apr. 1981). A list of Capuchin personnel in houses and foundations in the Cape Province (South Africa) and in the Diocese of Livingstone for January 1981 is also given.
Cutting from 'The Southern Cross' reporting on the opening of the new Church of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. With a photographic print of the Church. The report notes that the Church, built by the Irish Capuchins, ‘is the only Catholic Church now on the 600 mile stretch of railway between Bulawayo and Broken Hill’. Reference is made Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Superior of the Mission, Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.
