Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary. The group includes first on the left, Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC (1975-1953), third from the left, Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC (1872-1941), fifth from the left, Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC (1877-1925), third from the right, Fr. Bernardine Harvey OSFC (1874-1953), and first on the right, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC (1876-1965). Photographer/Studio: Guy Studio, Cork. An annotation in faint pencil on the reverse reads: ‘Taken in Holy Trinity garden by a most cross and irritable German from Guy’s’.
A portrait photograph of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) shortly after his ordination. Fr. Angelus was ordained on 23 February 1902. A manuscript annotation on the cover provides this description.
Photographic print of a large congregation attending a Sacred Thirst Confraternity meeting in St. Mary of the Angels. The congregation appear to be holding lighted candles. An annotation by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. reads ‘March 13th-20th 1904. Sacred Heart Glowing Ceremony’.
Record book chronicling the work of the National Temperance Crusade undertaken by the Capuchin friars at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops. The volume contains brief accounts of the various missions and the numbers who took the pledge in the various dioceses. The volume is paginated, and the information is arranged alphabetically by diocese name. It appears that the volume was left unused as a large portion of the content is left blank. A two-page manuscript insert by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC refers to the origins of the temperance crusade and to the request from the Catholic bishops to the Irish Capuchins to formally begin their temperance missions in October 1905.
Notes compiled by John O’Connell (1843-1905), a grandson of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’. The book contains accounts of various Provincial Chapters of the Capuchin Order in Ireland, records of personnel changes in various Capuchin communities, and notes on meetings and other activities of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Records include membership and ordination lists. Newspaper cuttings are pasted into the volume. A photographic print of the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in also extant in the volume. A partial index is also given: • List of Third Order Brothers in 1895 • List of Third Order Novices in 1897 • List of Third Order Novices in 1898 • Members of Council in 1895 • Collectors on Feast days • Canopy and Banner bearers • Monthly collectors • Portinuncula arrangements • Capuchin Chapter, 1898 • Third Order election, 1898 • Immaculate Conception and Christmas Arrangements, 1898 • List of Third Order Brothers for 1899 • Ordinations • Appointment of a Commissary Visitor to Third Order branches in England • Vergers and collectors, Holy Thursday • Sunday and Holiday collectors • List of Third Order brothers in 1902 A list is given on page 21 of ‘students who left the convent in Kilkenny … for Church Street, Dublin, about the ninth of April 1900, received the tonsure and minor orders on Saturday, 22nd September 1900’. The list includes the names of Brothers Sylvester Mulligan, Angelus Healy, Stanislaus Kavanagh and Albert Bibby’.
(Left) Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) standing beside a diocesan cleric. Fr. Angelus is seemingly wearing a temperance association medal. The pair appear to be at the head of a procession which may have been connected with the temperance movement. Two women wearing traditional shawls stand in the near background.
Listing compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC of the dates of temperance missions and the numbers taking the pledge in various parishes including Ballinrobe, Westport, Louisburgh, Clare Island, Clonmel and Kells. Remarks are also included in relation to the existence of a temperance hall and the names of the Capuchin friars involved in the mission.
An address to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Benignus Brennan OSFC from the members of the Kilcormac Temperance Hall in King’s County (Offaly). The address commends the friars’ temperance mission in the parish.
Scale: 30 feet to 1 inch Copy extract from the Ordnance Survey (1838) showing the Capuchin Chapel on Church Street bordered to north by Bedford Avenue (later Nicholas Avenue), to the south by May Lane, to the east by Bow Street and to the west by Church Street. An extract from a later Ordnance Survey map, copied in 1909, shows St. Mary of the Angels and the boundaries of Father Mathew Temperance Hall (constructed in 1890). One of the maps is annotated on the reverse ‘for Fr. Angelus Healy’.
A view of pilgrims climbing Croagh Patrick, County Mayo. The plate is labelled: ‘Croagh Patrick – Nearing the Cone’. The image is part of a collection of images assembled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953).
