Date: [Place of publication not identified]; [publisher not identified], [189-?] Author: Murray Alexander Mathew Language: English Ink stamp on title page reads: ‘Capuchin Franciscan Fathers, Church Street'. Includes the ancestry of Arnold Harris Mathew and Appendix: 'The ancestors and relatives of the 1st Earl of Landaff’s mother, Mary Matthews ... by the Rev. Murray A. Matthew … and ancestry of Fr. Theobald Mathew'.
Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.
Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.
Register with income derived from community masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The front cover is endorsed with a manuscript annotation: ‘Intentions for Masses exclusive of half-crown intentions’. The entries are listed under date, number of mass intentions and the amount of the stipend. The entries are occasionally signed by discreets and by the Provincial Minister at visitations. The title is given on the first page: ‘Liber missarum manualium commenced August 1886, Fr. Matthew O’Connor, guardian’. Monthly totals are periodically given.
Ledger of income derived from mass intentions at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The title is given on the first page: ‘House Intentions Book’. Entries are listed under the number of masses said and the amount of money received. Monthly totals are also given. A list of bequests with the amount of masses to be said and stipends received is extant on the final pages of the volume. The entries include the Walsh bequest of January 1914 (29 masses said at 2s 6d) and ‘Mrs Fleming’s bequest’ of 8 May 1915 (40 masses at 5s in stipends). A manuscript annotation at the end of this section reads: ‘All above masses have been said, Fr. Aloysius Travers of Cork, Provincial Minister, 7 April 1915’. Entries throughout the volume are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Register of mass stipends received at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The volume includes entries relating to monies received from masses said, masses reserved and for those sent to the Provincial Minister. The final two pages of the volume contain notes re the ‘Kerwick Mass Bequest’ and to arrangements for saying masses for which stipends have been received.
Framed letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, Cork, to Ms [recipient not given] referring to the shortage of food in the city. The letter reads ‘It would afford me pleasure to forward a supply of food but I deeply regret to say that my stock of Indian meal is exhausted. I soon disposed of the three hundred barrels I had for the relief of the destitute. Almost the entire support of the poor strangers who crowd our city is thrown upon me. Eighteen hundred weight of Indian meal is daily cooked in my boilers. Next week, I must have double the quantity as the other public kitchens will be closed’.
Letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mr. Martin referring to the latter’s emigration to the United States. The letter reads ‘Gratification at the prospect of you securing an honourable independence for yourself and your dear young family in the great and glorious Republic. Your education, talents, application to business and virtuous religious habits would ensure prosperity to you everywhere, except in our own impoverished, afflicted country. Here all classes are on the very verge of ruin, and in adopting the resolution of emigrating you are acting prudently’.
Two framed temperance medals. Both of the medals have ribbons attached (purple and green). The purple ribbon has the following inscription: ‘Approach them once a month / Live worthy of them the entire month / They loose and bind in heaven’. The medal with the green ribbon has an image of St. Patrick with the motif ‘Apostle of Ireland / Pray for Us’. The inscription above reads ‘Temperance / Perseverance’.
A wooden crucifix used by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The underside of the base has a manuscript annotation: ‘Father Mathew’s Cross, used in his sick calls &c and in cholera cases, 1831-2’.
