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Visitation report from St. Francis of Assisi Capuchin Franciscan Friary in Los Angeles (located at 1541 Golden Gate Ave). The report details the parish’s administrative, financial, and spiritual progress since the Capuchins assumed leadership on 1 June 1929. The report notes that the initial property debt of $18,000 has been successfully reduced to $15,500. Additionally, the parish has completed extensive property improvements totalling $8,535 – including church remodelling, new stained-glass windows, painting, and a new bell – alongside constructing a new, fully defrayed Capuchin Friary for over $6,000. Driven by active parish sodalities, church socials, and card parties, the congregation has more than doubled to over 350 families, generating a regular Sunday income of approximately $135.00 per week. Led by Community Superior Father Joseph Fenelon OFM cap. along with his assistants Father Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap., and Father Edmund Hyland OFM Cap., the report concludes by praising the deep spirit of fraternity within the community and its excellent relations with the local Bishop and clergy.

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), Fr. Raphael Quinn (d. 1940), Br. Seraphin O’Reilly (d. 1925); 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 photograph of a group of Irish Capuchin friars in Los Angeles. The group includes Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., and Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap.

Photograph of a large group of Capuchin friars in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. The photograph was taken during the Eucharistic Congress held in the Irish capital.

A notebook containing a short chronicle authored by Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap., detailing the earliest foundations and missionary assignments of the Irish Capuchins in the United States from 1910 through to the late 1920s. The notes refer to chronological milestones, beginning with the 1910 foundations in Bend and Hermiston, Oregon, under Bishop O’Reilly, leading into the establishment of the Mendocino missions in California (including Ukiah, Mendocino City, Elk, and Fort Bragg) and the canonical acquisition of Old Mission Santa Inés in 1924. Reference is also made to leadership successions and specific pastoral appointments, noting Fr. Luke Sheehan as the first Superior of the American Missions (1910-1922), followed by Fr. Joseph Fenelon in 1922, alongside early operational assignments for friars like Fr. Anthony Holmes, Fr. Leo Sheehan, Fr. Raphael Quinn, Fr. Ambrose Brunton, Fr. Pacificus McCaffery, and Fr. Sebastian Brennan.

Photograph of First Communicants of the Vocation School in Fort Bragg in California. Fr. Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap. is present.

Photograph of First Communicants in Fort Bragg in California. Fr. Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap. is present in the group.

Mourners at the grave of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in Mission Santa Inés in California. The group includes Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap., Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap., and Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap.

Photograph of (from left) Fr. Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap., Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap., and Fr. Clement Connolly OFM Cap.

Photograph of Fr. Ambrose Brunton OFM Cap., Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap., and Fr. Clement Connolly OFM Cap. on a boating excursion.