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Telegram from +Luigi Gedda, Vatican, to McQuaid stating that he was deeply touched by his broadcast to the Irish people. This gives great encouragement and ‘…intend to continue comitati civici as vanguard in fight against atheistic communism’.

Telegram from +Luigi Gedda, Vatican, to +McQuaid thanking him for his second instalment. Saturday prayers are urgently needed.

Letter from +Gilroy to +McQuaid sympathising with him on the death of his sister. +Norton has sent him a copy of ‘Wellsprings of the faith’. He hopes to visit Ireland the following year as part of the Australian pilgrimage.

Handwritten letter to Fr. O’Donnell, Archbishop’s Secretary, from Frank Fahey, Leinster House. Encloses a pamphlet.

Series of questions related to the Solemn Commemorative Mass.

Letter from +McGeough to +McQuaid entitled ‘Memorandum For their Lordships the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland’. This refers to the institution of a World Day of Prayer and Meditation for Peace. Co-operation should be sought on this matter with government, Catholic communities, non-Catholic communities and also non-Christian organisations. The 1 January is the date suggested for Ireland and the Nuncio will say Mass.

Letter from +McGeough to +McQuaid seeking information on the Convent of Jesus and Mary at Our Lady’s Grove, Clonskeagh. The request has come from the Italian Embassy in Ireland in connection with an application submitted by the Generalate of the congregation in Rome for legal recognition in that country.

Copy of typed letter to Dr. MacSweeney from +McQuaid. He will do what he can to achieve in the matter of paying children’s allowances to mothers, where the fathers are drunken or gamblers.

Letter from Mgr. Benelli to Fr. Browne of Archbishop’s House, thanking him for the report on the Dublin Matrimonial Tribunal for the year 1952 which will be forwarded to the Holy See.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Brosnahan stating he will be unable to attend the centenary celebrations. He encloses £100.