A history of the Capuchins in Kilkenny by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC. The text covers the period from the arrival of the Order in the city in 1643 to about 1825. The text includes transcripts and extracts from contemporary sources including:
• The petition of the Capuchins in Kilkenny to the General Assembly of the Irish Catholic Confederation [c.1645/6]. In Latin.
• Reply of the General Assembly of the Irish Catholic Confederation ‘fully admitting the Capuchins to establish themselves as members of the regular clergy in Ireland …’. [c.1645/6]. In Latin.
• Letters and petitions from the Franciscans and Dominicans to the Most Rev. David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory stating their opposition to the establishment by the Capuchins of a foundation in Kilkenny. [c.1647]. In Latin.
• Letter from Fr. Inocencio de Caltagirone OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Order, to Fr. Barnabas Barnewall OSFC, Commissary General, Kilkenny, reporting on the favourable conduct of the Capuchins in Ireland. 22 Apr. 1650. In Latin.
• Extracts from The Laffan Papers re the Capuchins in Kilkenny (1689).
• Declaration of the state of the Irish Capuchin mission signed by Fr. Cyprian of Armagh. 1 Dec. 1689.
• Report on the state of the Diocese of Ossory sent to Propaganda Fide, Rome. 1769.
Biographical details compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Cork Capuchins. The document is titled ‘Vassy, 23rd April 1833’. Those named are: ‘James O’Leahy. Died in France, 22 January 1817; Thomas Chinnery. Received in Vassy, 3 November 1783. Information is also given in respect of Edward Nugent (from Dalytown, County Longford), Died in France, 1795; James Jones (from Dunshaughlin, County Meath) ‘Died in Dublin in 1805, whilst seeking priests to help in his missions’.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestChronology (probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) of important events associated with the Capuchin presence in Kilkenny dating from 1643 to 1876. Many of the later entries are references from local newspapers.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestTranscript by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of an appeal seeking support for a number of Capuchin friars ‘expelled under circumstances of peculiar hardship from the Nantes Convent’, as a result of the ‘policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry’. The appeal may have been made in circa 1880. The appeal refers to the need to expand Holy Trinity Friary, and to ‘the heavy charge of forty religious actually dependent on a house, already full and heavily weighted with a large ground rent for Church and Convent and with building work on hand’. Subscriptions are to be directed to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC, Commissary General, Mr. Thomas Lyons, JP, Passage West, and others. The original printed appeal is extant in a volume at CA HT/7/20.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priest
A bound volume containing an article draft titled ‘Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage / A.D. 441-A.D. 1941’. The article was written by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and assesses the historical significance of the Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage in County Mayo. Fr. Angelus wrote ‘At the risk of appearing egotistical, but as a justification of my writing these pages, I may mention that my experience of Croagh Patrick goes back to the year 1906, when I climbed it for the first time, and that every year since, with only two exceptions, I have taken part in the pilgrimage’. The article was probably intended for publication in a Capuchin periodical.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestDraft resolution forwarded by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, Vice-President, Father Mathew Hall. Fr. Angelus suggest that the resolution ‘asks two things … first to endorse the work of the Irish Temperance Association and secondly to appeal for further financial support to enable the Hall Committee to extend their temperance propaganda’. The resolution refers to efforts to curtail the sale of alcohol on Sundays. The report notes that ‘we have Sunday drinking not in the interest of the public but in the interest of the publican’.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestExtracts by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from John Windle’s (1801-1865) 'Historical and Descriptive Notes of the City of Cork and its Vicinity' relating to Cork parishes and Holy Trinity Church.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestTranscripts and notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from mass registers of the Cork community. The notes mainly refer to personnel matters giving the names of community members, the dates of transfers, details of chapter meetings and the appointment of guardians. The title page reads: ‘This book contains notes made from an examination of the mass register of the Cork house. I mean the register signed by the Fathers of the masses discharged by the community. The examination extended over the books from 1889 to December 1914, a period of 25 years. It gives the names of the different Fathers in the community, superiors, dates of visitations and transfers from the community. I also examined house books from July 1883 to April 1885 to 1887 during which Fr. Englebert of Huissen OSFC was guardian. He used a special ledger of his own, as appears from an entry made by Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC who succeeded him in office’.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestExtracts by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from the Patent Rolls of James I (1611) and the Civil Survey (1654) re the occupiers of lands around Ards in County Donegal.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestCopybooks containing ‘extracts of Irish Capuchin interest copied from the files of '"The Kilkenny Journal"' by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC. First published as “the Lenister Journal”, 24th Jan. 1767, and with present title [from] 17th March 1830’. The volumes contain extracts from articles referring to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and his temperance campaign, Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC and to other members of the Order ministering in the city. The copybooks are organised by date:
• 20 Mar. 1844-14 Sept. 1844
• 14 Sept. 1844-27 Nov. 1844
• May 1846-Oct. 1846
• 1 Dec. 1849-Mar. 1850
• Mar. 1851-Feb. 1852
• Mar. 1852-Oct. 1852
• Mar. 1854-Jan. 1861
• Mar. 1856-Dec. 1856