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Flier from the Collegians’ Hurling Club seeking support for a training fund for a inter-colleges hurling competition in Cork. A manuscript addition notes that this copy was sent to Fr. Richard Henebry. The club’s president was Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC. One of the vice-presidents was Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Rochestown College, Cork.

Copy report by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on the mission of Livingstone-Barotseland in the Prefecture of Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia. The report is divided into the following sections:
I. Situation, area, population etc.
II. Historical Survey
I. Prior to the coming of the Capuchin Fathers
II. Coming of the Capuchin Fathers
Livingstone
Loanja
Loanja Out-Schools
Momba
Mulobezi
III. Applications for New Stations
Translations of Catechisms
IV. Details and Statistics
Babemba Church and School, Livingstone
Church of the Little Flower, Livingstone
Barotse Church and School, Livingstone
Loanja
Momba
Mulobezi
V. Sphere of Influence of each Station
Loanja
Kabompo
Lumbi
VI. Method of Converting the Locals
Results Secured
VII. Working of Schools
Babemba school, police camp, Livingstone
Zambesi Saw-Mills Compound School, Livingstone
School at Loanja Mission
School at Saw-Mills Compound, Mulobezi
VIII. Difficulties Hampering Work
Influence of Protestant Missionaries
Poverty of Districts
Transport
IX. Prospects for the Future
X. Tribes
XI. Languages
XII. Financial Outlay of Mission from Beginning
A manuscript note by Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. reads: ‘This amount does not include monies spent in building church and schools in Athlone parish and church in Parow parish, South Africa, amounting to over £7,000’.

A photograph of Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Capuchin Minister General, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. greeting civic leaders at City Hall in Cork. The group includes (first on the right) Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork.

A photograph of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (seated, third from the left) with Capuchin friars and novices at Rochestown College in County Cork. Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap. is seated, second on the left.

A studio photograph of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap.

Photograph of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, with Fr. Pacificus McCafferty OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., and Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap. in Watts, Los Angeles.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

Information supplied by Irish Capuchin friars residing in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, during his visitation. The document includes a comprehensive log of religious masses said by specific Capuchin priests at Paradise Parish in Abbottstown between August 1919 and June 1921, dedicated to the intentions of the Most Reverend Father General. Includes chronological tallies and specific location notes for individual clergy members – including Fathers Brendan, Benignus, Malachy, Ferdinand, Raphael, Leo, Gabriel, Ambrose, and Vincent – culminating in a ‘Grand Total’ of 103 masses. It also features a structured ledger cross-referencing individual priests against specific intentions, such as ‘Jubilees’, ‘House & Pious’, deceased family members (e.g., ‘Fr. John’s Mother’), and general intercessions like ‘Def. Gen. Eugenio’ and ‘Pro Fid. Def’. Handwritten annotations throughout provide contextual updates on the priests’ movements, indicating whether they arrived late, left for other locations like Lincoln in Nebraska or if a particular mass went unrecorded.

Reporting from the Catholic Rectory in Fort Bragg, California, outlining parish statistics requested by the Provincial Minister. Compiled by Fr. Finbarr O’Callaghan OFM Cap, the document notes that the Fort Bragg parish includes 208 families, counting nominal Catholic households across both Fort Bragg and Mendocino. It details the scheduling of Sunday Masses under two different scenarios – when staffed by two priests versus when staffed by only one – and lists active parish sodalities, including the Third Order of St. Francis, the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Name Sodality, and the Children of Mary. A note by Fr. Edwin Fitzbiggon OFM Cap. highlights that the parish is served by two priests and carries no financial debt.