Report of the canonical visitation of Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. It is noted that the community consists of eighteen students of theology, four priests, and three lay brothers. It is also noted that Fr. Aloysius examined the ‘Mass books and account books of the House’.
Replies to the Ceremony of Visitation by members of the Third Order of St. Francis, Kilkenny. It is noted that the replies to the set questions ‘have the one purpose of enabling the Visitator to judge how the Rule [of St. Francis] is being observed …’. The replies to the twelve questions are answered anonymously. The individual sheets have been bound together with a chord.
Some of the files in this subseries include combined visitation reports on missionary activity in both South Africa and Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia).
Date: 1817 Author: Mgr. Alphonse de Liguori Publisher: A Lyon, chez Périsse frères librairies, Grande Rue Merciére, No. 33. Full title: 'Visites au Saint Sacrement et a la Sainte Vierge pour chaque jour du mois Par Mgr Alphonse de Liguori: Ouvrage nouvellement traduit en français, sur la XVe édition italienne'.
The series contains a collection of prints, drawings and photographs relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Most of the prints were produced for commemorative and devotional purposes and to celebrate Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign.
Information flier published by the Vocations’ Co-ordinator, Mongu, Western Province, Zambia. The publication includes numerous photographs of young Zambian friars (including one image of postulants with Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister). With an information card on the African missions published by the Capuchin Foreign Missions Office in Dublin.
Three bound volumes of newspaper clippings containing Irish texts and some translations written by An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The titles of the texts include the lives of Saint Brigid and Saint Patrick. Some of the articles refer to the ‘coming of the faith to Ireland’. Most of the article clippings seem to have been taken from the ‘Cork Examiner’.