A picture postcard showing the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre in Paris.
A picture postcard showing the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Paris House: Avenue Hoche: letter (mutilated: embossed shield on p 1 has been cut out, but is included on p 3) from Mdlle. A.ma Frohrner (?), chez les Dames Dominicaines, avenue de Ste. Foy Neuilly sur Seine, pres de Paris, to an unknown Passionist who had just been changed from our Paris House to England. She asks him to find her a place as a tutor or female companion so that she may perfect her English, in view of her taking up teaching in Germany. Attached to this document are a transcription and translation done by a student-postulant, Barry Spencer, now Fr. Paul Francis.
Paris House: Avenue Hoche: interesting documents concerning St. Joseph's, 50 av. (de la Rein Hortense) Hoche, Paris, during the revolution of 1871, They consist of a letter (with envelope) addressed to Citoyen (i.e. Brother Seraphim), a certificate regarding the census and a MS note
Paris House: Avenue Hoche: envelope containng 10 picture postcards of St. Joseph's ave Hoche, 50, Paris (1860 church) as follows: (1) exterior, (2) interior from back, (3) High Altar, (4) the Macay Chapel,, (5) the Lady Chapel (said to contain, at one time, a picture painted by St. Luke, "The Hodegedia, (6) St. Jeanne d'Arc chapel, (7) US 1914-1918 War Dead, (8) statue of St. Paul of the Cross and (10) 15th century engraving of the Assumption
Paris House: Avenue Hoche: letter from J.P. Walsh, Deparment of External Affairs, to Fr. Adrian Convery, C.P., Rector, Mount Argus, informing him that the Legation at Vichy says Fr. Cornelius O'Grady C.P., and the community at the ave Hoche are in very good health.
Paris House: Avenue Hoche: letter from J.P. Walsh, Deparment of External Affairs, to Fr. Adrian Convery, C.P., Rector, Mount Argus, informing him that the Minister at Legation at Vichy visited Avenu Hoche and found the community in very good spirirts, though somewhat thiner than last year.
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The sub-series comprises records relating to arrest and imprisonment of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. during the War of Independence.