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A photograph of (right) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. arriving at Mission Santa Inés in California. In the centre is Br. Colmcille Cregan OFM Cap. The friar on the right is Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap.

A clipping of an article reporting on the opening of a religious mission at St. Gertrude’s Church in Stockton, California, led by two Capuchin friars, Father Joseph Fenelon and Father Clement Connolly. The mission began with a High Mass sung by Father Clement. The opening sermon was delivered by Father Joseph, using the text: ‘Blessed are they who hear the word of God and who keep it’. The article notes that Sunday services were ‘largely attended’ by both Catholics and non-Catholics. The clipping is taken from the ‘Stockton Daily Evening Record’ (23 April 1923).

Clippings from ‘The Monitor’ and the ‘Watts Review’ (dated January and February 1924 and 1926) documenting the expanding influence of the Irish Capuchin Franciscans from Watts to San Francisco. The primary focus of the articles is Archbishop Hanna’s decision to place the Visitation Parish in San Francisco under the care of the Irish Capuchins.

Clipping from the ‘Watts Review’ detailing the formal ‘Grand Opening’ and installation ceremony of the Irish Capuchin Fathers at Old Mission Santa Inés in Santa Barbara County. The article emphasizes the emotional significance of the event, noting that ‘brown-robed and sandaled’ friars had not been seen at the mission for over seventy-four years. The new mission staff included Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (Rector), Father Reginald O’Hanlon OFM Cap. (Assistant), and Brother Columcille Cregan OFM Cap. They were accompanied by Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., the Mission Superior in America.

A clipping of an article reporting on a highly attended four-week parish mission conducted by the Irish Capuchin friars at the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle on West 118th Street in New York City. Formally opened on 4 October with a Solemn High Mass, the mission is being led by Fathers Joseph Fenelon, Matthew O’Connor, Brendan O’Callaghan, and Fintan Roche, with the opening sermon delivered by Father Joseph. The campaign dedicates individual weeks to married women, married men, single women, and single men respectively, drawing overflow crowds to both the upper and basement churches. The report highlights heavily attended early morning Masses, long lines for confession, the enrolment of local women into the St. Anne Society, and traditional sermons focused strictly on family life, marital duties, and contemporary social morality. The clipping is taken from the ‘Catholic News’ (17 October 1925).

A clipping of an article reporting on Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi parish in Los Angeles, who is traveling to Dublin for the Triennial Capuchin Provincial Chapter. The article notes his work expanding the order in the United States, including new foundations in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Wilmington, Delaware. The article is taken from ‘The Tidings’, a Catholic newspaper published in Los Angeles.

A file of photographs of Capuchin friars in Watts, Los Angeles, California. The prints show the construction of St. Lawrence of Brindisi School, the church and a residence for the friars in Watts. Includes images of Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Mission Superior, Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap., Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap., and Fr. Juan Antonio de San Juan en Persiceto OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Order. A manuscript annotation on the covering envelope (by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.) reads ‘Views in Watts, Los Angeles / a new Church has seen been erected in Watts by the late Fr. Thomas Dowling of Kilkenny’. Two of the prints are dated: 12 May 1923 and 19 September 1923.

Photograph of Fr. Clement Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., and Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. outside the Capuchin friars’ residence in Watts, Los Angeles.

Photograph of (seated) Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. with Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. and other friars outside the residence adjoining the Capuchin novitiate in Wilmington in Delaware.