Photograph of a group of four Capuchin Friars in California. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Some familiar faces, 1923’. The group includes Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap. and Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap.
A group of Capuchin friars and Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna at St. Anthony’s Church in Willits, Mendocino County, California. The group includes Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap., Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Damian Ginnell OFM Cap., Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap., Monsignor James Cantwell, and Fr. Conleth Killan OFM Cap.
Photographs of Capuchin friars playing golf at a course in Fort Bragg in California. The group includes Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap. and Fr. Conleth Killian OFM Cap.
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.
The left photograph shows (from left) Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap. and Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. The photograph on the right shows Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap.
Photograph of Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., and Fr. Adrian Sharkett OFM Cap. in Hermiston, Oregon
Photograph of a group of Capuchin friars in Ukiah, California. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Circa Summer 1923. [standing]: Fr. Berchmans Cantillon (d. 1942), Fr. Raphael Quinn (d. 1940), Fr. Thomas Dowling (d. 1951); [seated]: ‘Fr. Anthony Holmes (d. 1947), Fr. Leo Sheehan (d. 1959), Fr. Urban Riordan [d. 1972]’.
A group of Irish Capuchin friars in Ukiah, California. The group comprises Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap., Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap., and Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap.
Photograph of Capuchin Friars and other clerics playing golf in California. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Fr. Anthony at the bat’. This is most likely Fr. Anthony Holmes OFM Cap. (1886-1947).
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.
Riordan, Urban, 1891-1972, Capuchin priest