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Photograph of a group of Capuchin friars during the visitation of Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to the United States mission. The photograph was most likely taken in Ukiah, California. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Standing: Fr. Anthony Holmes (d. 1947), Fr. Ambrose Brunton (d. 1976), Fr. Urban Riordan (d. 1973), Br. Seraphin O’Reilly (d. 1925); Fr. Raphael Quinn (d. 1940); Seated (left to right) Fr. Joseph Fenelon (d. 1963), Fr. Peter Bowe (1856-1926), Fr. Thomas Dowling (d. 1951), Fr. Sebastian Brennan (d. 1936)’. The print is credited to Wagar Photo, Ukiah.

A view of several Capuchin friars walking in a walled garden. The group includes (from left to right):
Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968). His hand is partially obscuring his face.
Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954)
Fr. Matthew O'Connor OFM Cap. (1859-1930)
Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926)
Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965)

A group of Capuchin priests and novices in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. A manuscript annotation provides the names of the friars. The group includes Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Sebastian O’Brien, Stanislaus Walsh OFM Cap., Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Paschal Stapleton OFM Cap., and Luke Sheehan OFM Cap.

A group portrait of several Capuchin friars outside the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin. The photograph may have been taken on the occasion of a jubilee celebration for Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. The group includes:
Standing at door: Fr. Benedict Phelan OFM Cap. (1874-1947)
Second row, first on the left: Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953)
Second row, second on the left: Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935)
Second row, third on the left: Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1875-1965)
Second row, fourth on the left: Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926)
Second row, fifth on the left: Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (1881-1962)
Second row, sixth on the left: Br. Leo Cronin OFM Cap. (1859-1949)
First row, first on the left: Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1975-1950)
First row, second on the left: Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957)
First row, fourth on the left: Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. (1835-1919)

A photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary in Dublin.

Community list titled ‘Family of Rochestown’ detailing the formal community roster of the Capuchin Franciscan friary at Rochestown, County Cork. The document lists senior leadership roles and clerical assignments, recording Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. as Guardian, Definitor, and Master of Novices; and Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. as Rector of the Seraphic School and Librarian; Underneath the senior clergy, the record lists seventeen student and lay brothers: Luke, Mark, Thomas, Joseph, Clement, Sylvester, Angelus, Stanislaus, Cherubim, Edwin, Camillus, Bernardine, Pacificus, Albert, Urban, and Dominic.

A legal conveyance indenture granting ownership in fee simple of a plot of land in Rochestown, County Cork, for the continued use of the Capuchin Franciscan College. The grantor is Alexander John Glasgow of ‘Parenga’, Nelson, in the Colony of New Zealand. He is acting through his sole surviving lawful attorney, John Colin Mitchell, Solicitor, of 160 West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland (empowered by a Power of Attorney dated 24 December 1904). The grantees are eight Capuchin friars (including Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap.), all based at Father Mathew Quay in the City of Cork. The document conveys ‘All that piece or plot of land part of the lands of Rochestown in the Barony of Cork and County of Cork’ which had been for some years prior in the possession and occupation of the Grantees or their predecessors in connection with the Capuchin Franciscan College at Rochestown. The fee simple estate is granted in consideration of the sum of £5.

A transcription a bilingual address presented to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, upon his return to Rochestown following an exploratory journey to South Africa to investigate establishing a foreign mission. The English portion of the text, submitted on behalf of the Guardian and Community of Rochestown and visiting rectors from Kilkenny, extends congratulations on his safe return from an ‘enterprising journey’, framing the mission as a continuation of Ireland’s historical evangelization efforts to bring spiritual light to the ‘Dark Continent’. The bottom section replicates these congratulatory sentiments in traditional Gaelic script, offering a formal welcome (‘céad míle fáilte’) to the superior.

Fr. Finbarr O’Callaghan OFM Cap. (left) with Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, in Watts, Los Angeles.

Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. (left) with Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, in Watts, Los Angeles.