Draft copy address signed by Arthur McMahon, Luke McRedmond and John Coyle (on behalf of the citizens of Kilkenny) to Fr. Joseph Harkins OSFC (d. 1 Dec. 1888) on the occasion of his departure to the missions in India. The address reads: ‘We, your fellow citizens and friends have heard with regret that you are about to take your departure from amongst us, that you are about to leave your native city and your native land … to walk in the footsteps of two of the greatest saints of His Holy Church: that you have been chosen to care in far distant India, the seed of which was planted in the blood of St. Thomas and nourished by the martyrdom of St. Francis Xavier’.
Appeal to Third Order members in Kilkenny to support the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of St. Joseph’s Convent, Busoga, British East Africa, who require a larger hospital building for the care of lepers.
Letter, invitations, notes re agenda and itinerary for the Third Order Regional Congress (Franciscan Tertiary Congress) held in Kilkenny in October 1939. Correspondents include Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Leo Rowlands OFM Cap. (British Capuchin Province). It was noted that Aodh De Blácam (1890-1951), the well-known journalist and author, was one of scheduled speakers. With a photographic print of congress participants in Kilkenny on 15 Oct. 1939 ('Irish Press').
Letters from Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Commissary Provincial of the Third Order, to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap., regarding returns for the fraternities in Kilkenny. Fr. Canice also affirms that every ‘priest in the Province has the power to receive persons into the Third Order and to profess them (7 Dec. 1940). See also CA KK/1/3/15.
Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, regarding the granting of faculties to act as extraordinary confessor to the Sisters of St. John of God.
An engraving of St. John’s Abbey, Kilkenny. The print is probably taken from Edward Ledwich’s 'The History of Antiquities of Irishtown and Kilkenny', which contains plates of ‘St. John’s Abbey, Kilkenny’ and the ‘East Window of Dunamase Abbey’, engraved from W. Beauford’s drawings by J. Duff.
Pictorial postcards of the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. With covers for the original series of six postcards. The file includes prints of the High Altar in the Church, the interior and exterior of the Church, the Community Choir, the Library, the Refectory, the Sanctuary in the Church, and St. Anthony’s Shrine. There are multiple copies of some of these postcards.
