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A copy of a promotional booklet for St. Francis Seminary in Flintridge, California. The booklet is illustrated with images of various Irish Capuchin foundations across the United States. This promotional or informational publication was designed for prospective students considering the Capuchin Franciscan seminary.

Photographs associated with the visitation of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. to the United States. Fr. James visited the United States for several months in 1936. Many of the photographs show Father James with missionaries at the newly-constructed novitiate building (St. Patrick’s) in Wilmington in Delaware. The file includes photographs of Fr. Adrian Sharkett OFM Cap. (1879-1965), Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. (1875-1963), Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. (1894-1980), Fr. Cyprian O’Leary OFM Cap. (1905-1977), Fr. Fergus Lawless OFM Cap. (1904-1991), Fr. Conleth Killian OFM Cap. (1895-1950), Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap. (1880-1942), Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953), Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. (1880-1952), Fr. Finbarr O’Callaghan OFM Cap. (1879-1963), and Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. (1874-1951). A manuscript annotation on the cover reads ‘Found these in attic in Bonies [St. Bonaventure’s Hostel, Cork], Pat’.

Photograph of Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. with Bishop Francis Peter Leipzig during the former’s visitation to the United States. The group includes Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap., Fr. Adrian Sharkey OFM Cap., and Fr. Emilian Meade OFM Cap. The image is credited to Loy’s Studio, 55 Glady’s Avenue, Hermiston, Oregon.

Clipping from the ‘Watts Review’ detailing several significant events for the St. Lawrence Parish. A successful week-long religious mission led by Fr. Reginald O’Hanlon OFM Cap. concluded on 22 February. The event drew capacity crowds and featured the renewal of baptismal vows and a papal blessing. Many new members were also added to the Third Order of St. Francis. Reference is also made to the death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. who passed away on 14 February 1925 at St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara. He was the former rector of the Old Mission Santa Inés and was buried there following a solemn Requiem Mass. A separate report mentions Father Joseph Fenelon participating in a mission at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.
 

A photograph of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Sarah Mellows standing at the graveside of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in Mission Santa Inés in California. Other individuals in the group include Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap., Rev. Paul Dillon, and Mary McWhorter.

A newspaper clipping announcing that Bishop Louis B. Kucera has appointed Rev. Thomas M. Kealy, a Veterans’ hospital chaplain and associate editor of ‘The Register’, as the new pastor of Sacred Heart church to succeed the withdrawing Irish Capuchin fathers. The article includes an official statement from the bishop explaining that the Very Rev. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap., the American representative of the Irish Capuchins, conducted a personal survey of the parish and determined it must be relinquished due to a shortage of priests. Because Lincoln’s Sacred Heart was their only church in the midwestern states, the order’s general chapter in Dublin decided it was too geographically isolated to be served conveniently alongside their existing novitiate in Delaware and missions on the west coast.

A copy of a humorous poem written by Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. reflecting on an excursion to Cuba undertaken by Irish Capuchin missionaries working in the United States.

Photographic album of Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. The album contains many black and white photographic prints (on card) of views of the Capuchin Mission at Santa Inez, California. First leaf contains a memorial card for Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. who ‘died in exile for the Republic of Ireland at Santa Barbara, USA, 14 Feb. 1925’. The album contains:
Photograph of Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. and Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap. outside a house in Ukiah, California.
Photograph of Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, Archbishop of San Francisco, with a confirmation group of Native American children.
Photographs of the mourners at the funeral of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (Feb. 1925). The photograph is captioned: ‘Fr. Urban [Riordan OFM Cap.], Peter Murray, Fr. Stephen [Murtagh OFM Cap.], Rev. Paul Dillon, Eamon Martin, Mrs [Mary] McWhorter, Fr. Dominic [O'Connor OFM Cap.], Mrs [Sara] Mellows, Fr Leo … Funeral, Fr. Albert, Feb. 1925’.
Portrait photograph of an ‘Indian Girl’, Ukiah, California.
Photograph of Br. Conrad standing in front of the portico of Santa Inez Mission.
Photograph of a group of ‘Californian Indians (Pomo), Ukiah, 1925’.
Photograph of a group of ‘Pomo Indian Boys, 4.1.25’.

Photograph of a group of clerics at the ordination of Fr. Anthony Harris OFM Cap. in Bend in Oregon. A typescript caption on the reverse reads ‘Group taken at the first ordination in the new church at Bend, Oregon. L. to R. Fr. Emilian [Meade], the newly ordained [Fr. Anthony Harris], ordaining prelate [Bishop Francis Peter Leipzig]: Fr. Virgilius Murtagh, Fr. Stephen Murtagh, Fr. Adrian Sharkey. Between the Archbishop and Fr. Virgilius is Fr. William Coughlan, pastor at Bend, and on his left Fr. Leopold O’Riordan’. The image is credited to Loy’s Studio.

File relating to the complaints made by John Joseph Mitty, Archbishop of San Francisco, against the Irish Capuchins. Includes a documentary statement outlining the charges made by Archbishop Mitty in respect of the general conduct of the friars and a refutation of the same by Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap., Custos Provincial. The file includes testimonial letters (in favour of the Irish Capuchins) from John Joseph Cantwell, Archbishop of Los Angeles, outlining the service of the Capuchin fathers in Mendocino County in California. Also includes a letter from Fr. James P. Cantwell, Pastor, St. Brigid’s Church, San Francisco, California and notes from Sister M. Beata OP and Sister M. Rufina OP, The Albertinum Boarding School, Ukiah, California. A letter (26 March 1940) from Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, reads:

‘The fact is, although I have not said it in so many words, that the Archbishop [John Joseph Mitty] wants to get us out of Burlingame. It is just too good a plum for the Capuchins or for any other Religious Order. On March 28, when he informed me that he would not let us build there, he said, “Why can’t you build somewhere else?” – clearly showing that it was not a question of injury to religion but to the finances of the secular clergy. It is a well known fact that he does not like the Religious Orders. Some of them have brought their case to Rome already. And the Jesuit Provincial has mentioned our work in a letter to his Father General who is continually kept informed of the attempted encroachments of the Archbishop on their rights in San Francisco’.