A volume titled ‘Blocks / Father Mathew Record / The Capuchin Annual / subjects: Capuchins / Saints / Beati / Friars / Friaries / Houses / Colleges’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
• The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin.
• Certificate of reception of Cardinal Joseph McRory, Archbishop of Armagh, into the Third Order of St. Francis. 11 Mar. 1928.
• The Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork.
• Irish Capuchin houses in France in the eighteenth century.
• Engraving of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin.
• Students in Rochestown College, County Cork.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• General Chapter of the Capuchin Order in Rome, 1926.
• Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia OSFC (1809-1889).
• A group of Irish Capuchin students in Rome.
• Cartoons by Tom Lalor.
• The exterior of the old Capuchin Chapel on Church Street (c.1861).
• The Most Rev. Thomas-Louis Connolly OSFC (1814-1876), Archbishop of Halifax.
• Views of Dublin life, a collection of drawings by Seán MacManus.
• Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931).
• A view of Church Street looking northwards towards North King Street.
• Mary Redmond (1863-1930), sculptor.
• Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954).
• Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935) in the United States.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965).
• Depictions of St. Francis and various Capuchin Franciscan Saints.
• Capuchin Franciscan bishops.
A group of Irish Capuchin friars at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. is the present in the photograph (seated, first on the right).
Copy of the decrees and resolutions of the Custos Provincial (Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap.) and Consultors. The document outlines the critical administrative, financial, and personnel changes for the Capuchin Franciscan friars in California and Oregon.
Administrative & Financial Decisions:
New Friary at Burlingame: Plans are to be drawn for a new friary. A petition will be sent to Archbishop Mitty requesting that the parish cover the cost of its erection.
Roseburg School Project: Father Berchmans is tasked with investigating the financial viability of building a school at the Roseburg parish.
Establishment of a Custos Provincial Fund: A new fund is created to cover local expenses, assist friars traveling from Ireland, and save for a future ‘Seraphic School’.
Banking Protocols: All money must now be banked in the name of the Order (not individuals), ideally requiring two friars’ names for registration.
The document lists several reassignments of friars across various the California and Oregon missions:
Fr. Alban: Appointed Superior of Old Mission Santa Inez and Pastor of the Parish.
Fr. Anthony: Moved from Fort Bragg to Burlingame.
Fr. Fergus: Moved from Burlingame to St. Lawrence, Los Angeles.
Fr. Victor: Moved from St. Lawrence to the Novitiate at Wilmington.
Fr. Richard: Moved from St. Lawrence to Ukiah.
Fr. Irenaeus: Moved from Ukiah to Wilmington.
Fr. Leopold: Appointed to St. Lawrence, Los Angeles.
Fr. Roger: Appointed to Fort Bragg.
Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. among the Pomo people, a group of Native Americans in Ukiah, Mendocino County in Northern California.
Letters of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988). The file includes letters from teachers and from the local populace to Fr. Alfred relating to his role as principal at mission schools in Sancta Maria Mission (Lukulu), in Malengwa, and later at Maramba. The file also includes letters pertaining to his role as Regular Superior in Livingstone, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The subjects include: the possibility of Irish Capuchins working in the Port Elizabeth Vicariate in South Africa; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy’s desire to return to Ireland. (25 July 1951); enclosing a list of personnel and statistics for both the South African and Northern Rhodesian missions. (16 Oct. 1951); the construction of churches at the Sancta Maria mission, and at Mankoya, and a friary at Kalabo in Northern Rhodesia. (5 Jan. 1952); developments in Athlone parish, Cape Province. (25 June 1953); the ‘education side’ of the mission in Livingstone. (20 Mar. 1954). The file incudes enclosed letters to Fr. Alfred from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town. With a letter from Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. enclosing a list of Zambian churches with resident Capuchin friars, and the names of the titular feasts associated with each church. Reference is also made to the activities of the following Irish Capuchin missionaries: Fr. Jerome MacQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Anslem Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.; Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.
Sin títuloLetter from Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, discussing the ongoing tensions between the Capuchin Order’s development and the local Diocese’s expectations. A major point of contention involves a proposed school. Father Stephen clarifies that the Order’s primary concern is its own development and that it cannot assume financial responsibility for a project costing ‘some thousands of dollars’ that is not in the Order’s name. The letter mentions a site at Roseburg given to the Order by Archbishop Christie. To move forward with any property changes, the author suggests the Provincial Minister petition the Holy See for the ‘alienation of the property’ to ensure legal and religious protocols are followed. Reference is also made to Fr. Alban Cullen’s appointment to Santa Inés.
Copy letter from Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. regarding the administrative changes in the Western American mission. The letter suggests that Fr. Alban Cullen be placed in a ‘comparatively quiet place such as Santa Inez, rather than a busier house, to ensure he has ‘plenty of work to do’. Reference is also made to the legal standing of the Roseburg (Oregon) property. The Capuchin leadership in Dublin is confused about whether the property actually belongs to the Order or is merely ‘parochial property’.
Sin títuloFr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. among the Pomo people, a group of Native Americans in Ukiah, Mendocino County in Northern California.
The Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town and the adjacent school of St. Raphael’s. With annotations on the reverse by the depositor, James P. Rigney (a nephew of Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.), who visited Cape Town and met with Fr. Wilfrid Aherne OFM Cap.
Letter from Vincent Boulle, Linda Road, Claremont, Cape Province, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the establishment of a Third Order Sodality in the Cape Province, South Africa. Reference is made to receptions into the Third Order made by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.