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File relating to cures associated with visits to the grave of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork. The file was compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The file includes:
• Statements from Hannah Keohane regarding her son who was cured through the intercession of prayers at the grave of Fr. Theobald. (18 Mar. 1943).
• Letters to Fr. Stanislaus from Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap. and Fr. T.J. Walsh re Annie Nolan, 21 Abbey Street, Cork, who reputedly recovered her sight through the intercession of Fr. Theobald.
• Statements and correspondence re Madge Twomey whose throat condition was cured through visits to the grave.
• Letters relating to Mrs Kathleen Skillington (née Walsh) whose leg was cured following a visit to Fr. Theobald’s grave. The file includes the testimony of Dr D. F. Hegarty, surgeon. 5 Jan 1938.
• Letter from Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. referring to the cause of Fr. Mathew. He wrote ‘It is to be regretted that there is no one of ourselves free and willing to take an interest in the cause – as according to rumours a great many things occur at the grave. The people come from a distance. No one has any knowledge of themselves, the favours they have received or where they come from’. 28 Jan. 1932. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• ‘Father Mathew / Leader and Priest / Cures wrought at his tomb’. The text of a speech given by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC on the occasion of the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Fr. Mathew. Oct. 1913. Typescript, 8 pp.
• Prayer for the beatification of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. It is noted that this prayer was submitted to the Most Rev. Daniel Coholan, Bishop of Cork, for ecclesiastical approval in May 1928. Typescript, 1 p.

Extracts from the 'Dublin Review' periodical relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance movement in Ireland. The extracts date from 1840 and include reviews of the 'First Annual Report of the Irish Temperance Union (25 Feb. 1840) and the 'Speech of John Hackney Esq. on Temperance delivered on Dec. 29th, 1837, at the Rotunda' (Dublin 1840). The notebook also contains extracts from the 'Limerick Chronicle', 17-20 Aug. 1842 referring to a speech by Fr. Mathew at Ennistymon in County Clare. The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.

• Notes re Fr. Theobald Mathew’s family. It is stated that John Francis Maguire in his 'Father Mathew / A Biography' affirms that Fr. Mathew’s parents had twelve children, 9 boys and 3 girls. The notes were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 1 p.
• Excerpts from ‘The life of Fr. Theobald Mathew’ by Dr. P. Rogers, The Father Mathew Record, 31, no. 4 (Apr. 1938). The notes refer to the genealogy of Fr. Mathew and were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Copy letter of Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to Rev. M.J. O’Dwyer, The Presbytery, Anacarty, County Tipperary, seeking information re a memorial tombstone for Fr. Mathew’s mother (Anne Whyte, a daughter of George Whyte of Cappawhyte). 5 Nov. 1938. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letter of Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to ‘Cyril’ re Fr. Mathew’s genealogy. He writes: ‘I have no information regarding the date of death of either the father or mother of Father Mathew. There was in the Public Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin, prior to the destruction of the records, a collection of Wills from the Probate Court of the Diocese of Cashel & Emly. Only the catalogue of these Wills now exists, and this catalogue mentions a will of James Mathew of Rathcloheen dated 1810’. 8 July 1953. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Information about Thomastown Castle and Father Mathew given to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. by William Pike. It is noted that Pike was born in Thomastown in 1846 and he worked there until 1885. The Pike family were intimately connected with the Mathews and his grand-aunt, Hannah McGrath, was Father Mather’s foster mother. The notes refer to the history of the Mathews at Thomastown, to the ultimate fate of estate and house following its sale in 1875, and to local traditions associated with the temperance campaigner. Some of the notes are dated 16 July 1930. Typescript, 19 pp.
• ‘Particulars from the Thomastown Registers’ re the genealogy of the Mathews family. The notes were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Extract from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography' re Mathew family genealogy. Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. also makes reference to Fr. David Mathew’s (Fr. Theobald’s grand-nephew) account of family history. Typescript, 1 p.
• Notes by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the genealogy of the Mathew family. Manuscript, 3 pp.
• Letter from Willie Doyle, Bank Place, Tipperary, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. asking for his impressions of the Father Mathew Statue at Thomastown Cross in County Tipperary. He also encloses notes re Mathew family genealogy and transcripts of monuments for James White (d. 1763), Paul Mathew (d. 1835) and his brother Thomas Mathew (d. 1838) found in the graveyard of Donohill Church, County Tipperary. 10 July 1930. Manuscript, 6 pp.

Letter from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church Street, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the mission list and querying an item in the accounts furnished from Capuchin General Curia in Rome.

Copy letters of Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to John J. Sharkey, Catholic Total Abstinence Union, Boston, referring to the cause of Fr. Mathew. Fr. Stanislaus wrote ‘No efforts either privately or publicly have been made by any member of our Order to direct further interest in the intercession of Fr. Mathew, and yet the devotion to him is as abiding in the hearts of the people – especially in Cork – as it was the in the years that followed his death’.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., St. Bonaventure’s, Cork, seeking information on the Capuchins of Cork city (with sources) from circa 1654-1766. Fr. Stanislaus refers to Fr. T.J. Walsh’s article on the Cork Capuchins: ‘It reaches a high level, and will read well. You know he is preparing it for the Capuchin Annual, with illustrations’.

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Memoranda re books held in the Kilkenny Friary Library. The notes were probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Particular reference is made to annotations, marginalia and inscriptions found on the frontispieces of the volumes. Some of the memoranda are very fragmentary and incomplete. Many of the books referred to in the memoranda are now extant in the Provincial Archives. See CA KK/10 for a listing of some these texts from the Kilkenny Friary Library.

Memorandum by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, referring to the discovery in the Church Street Archives in 1922 of a collection of papers labelled ‘Correspondence between Dr. Cullen and the Fathers relative to the New Church in North King Street’. Fr. Stanislaus refers to a loose folio sheet titled ‘Notabilia’ relating to the Baron Hale bequest which was the ‘only authentic expression of an obligation for Masses to be found … in the Archives’. (See CA CS/2/3/2). The memorandum affirms that the ‘Notabilia’ document was submitted by Fr. Stanislaus to a definitory meeting in November 1922 which ordered him to investigate the whereabouts of the investment and interest money referred to in the bequest. The memorandum reports Fr. Stanislaus’s findings in relation to the Hale bequest. It notes that in 1893 the legacy, which had been converted to stocks worth £181 11s 5d, was transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of National Debt and was subsequently paid to Jane E. Pratt, lawful sister and next of kin of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, one of the priests in whose name the legacy was invested. Fr. Stanislaus concludes by affirming that ‘interest on the investment was drawn up in 1883 which warrants the assumption that the masses were likewise said up to that time’. With copies of the memorandum and transcription of the ‘Notabilia’ document made by Fr. Stanislaus on 10 Nov. 1921. One of the copies is endorsed by Fr. Stanislaus: ‘submitted to the General Definition, Rome, Decree of Condonation from the Sacred Congregation, dated, Feb. 22, 1927 [and signed by Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap.], appended’. The file also includes a typescript note suggesting that ‘Baron Hale’ may refer to Sir Matthew Hales, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. Some of the notes by Fr. Stanislaus also refer to the correspondence of Fr. Lawrence Gallerani, Irish Capuchin Commissary General, with Archbishop Paul Cullen, regarding the construction of St. Mary of the Angels.