Community diary and record book probably compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary. The mid-year diary records notices of masses, retreats, missions, visitations, and other events involving members of the Holy Trinity community.
Community diary and record book probably compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary. The mid-year diary records notices of masses, retreats, missions, visitations, and other events involving members of the Holy Trinity community.
Letter from F.W. McCarthy, Town Clerk, Cork Corporation, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC regarding the attendance of the municipal authorities at the laying of the foundation stone of the ‘Father Bernard Memorial’.
Letter from the Most Rev. John Healy (1841-1918), Archbishop of Tuam, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, thanking the community of Holy Trinity for a gift sent to him on the occasion of his recent jubilee.
Letter from Lady Maude Dunboyne, Knoppogue Castle, Quin, County Clare, to Fr. Slattery thanking the Cork Capuchins for their recent mission work in the vicinity of Quin, County Clare.
Letters from the Most Rev. Daniel Colahan, Bishop of Cork, to the guardians of Holy Trinity Friary, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. The recipients include Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and Fr. Flannan Downing OSFC. Some of the letters were written by the Bishop’s secretary, James Hurley. Many of the letters relate to requests from the Bishop to the Capuchin community for confessors (particularly for convents of religious women) and to other aspects of ecclesiastical administration in the diocese. Reference is made to masses for benefactors including the Christopher Dunn bequest. On 9 Feb. 1940, Bishop Colahan wrote a circular letter to the clergy warning of the need to the keep the Church ‘detached and Independent of party politics’. The file also includes several printed pastoral letters: 5 Apr. 1942, referring to the ‘sacrament of matrimony’; 16 Mar. 1947, warning of the threat of ‘Communist’ activities in Cork.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from Timothy B. Walsh, St. Patrick’s, Waterford, regarding the distribution of devotional material for Our Lady of Fátima.
Letter from Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., guardian, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a schedule of religious exercises to be held in Holy Trinity Church to mark Marian Year.
