A note regarding a jurisdictional dispute between the Irish Capuchins and the local Pennsylvania Province regarding the mission in Abbottstown. It is stated that a decree from the General Definitorium (Gen. Def.) dated 19 February 1926, ordered the Irish Capuchins to leave the place and hand the hospice over to the Province of Pennsylvania. The reason given was that it was ‘situated in the territory of the latter province’.
Note regarding the installation of new statues and ornamentation on altars in Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The note provides details concerning the appeal for funds for the decoration of the shrine of St. Anne in the Church.
Note by Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (1850-1904), guardian, regarding the expenses of the Holy Trinity community and the amount transferred to the Rochestown house.
Jennings, Bernard, 1850-1904, Capuchin priestA short account detailing the early days of the Irish Capuchin mission in Oregon.
The Mission’s Origins: Reference is made to Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. returning to Ireland to report his and Father Luke’s investigations into this ‘neglected portion of the Lord’s Vineyard’.
Official Acceptance (1910): The text records that at a Provincial Chapter held at St. Mary of the Angels in Dublin in 1910, the work in Oregon was officially accepted by the Irish Capuchins.
The First Three Missionaries: Three priests (all from Kilkenny) were chosen to join Father Luke in Bend:
Father Leonard (Brophy)
Father Benignus (Brennan)
Father Casimir (Butler)
A note, possibly by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., on the building by Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC of the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny in 1847. Fr. Angelus wrote ‘in the account of the celebration of the Feast of St. Francis in 1847 there is no reference to any change in the Friary Church, which was the Old Poor House Chapel … the new Church was begun between October 1847 and December 1848’.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priestNote on shares held by Vincentians, as well as notes on property in Barony of Longford, County Galway
Slip of paper with ‘estimate of Terrapin house at Rock’ of over ten thousand pounds.
Institute of Charity, John Cronin, Rome, Irish College, Italy, Dom Bernard Smith, Benedictines
Notes written by John Cronin, Rosminian, while in the Irish College of Rome Archives in Rome, Italy, regarding correspondence between Dom Bernard Smith, Benedictine, and his friend Antonio Rosmini, founder of the Institute of Charity.
Institute of Charity, John Cronin, Rome, Irish College, Italy, Dom Bernard Smith, Benedictines
Notes written by John Cronin, Rosminian, while in the Irish College of Rome Archives in Rome, Italy, regarding correspondence between Dom Bernard Smith, Benedictine, and his friend Antonio Rosmini, founder of the Institute of Charity.
Short note of acknowledgment to Prior and offering prayers for his Mother.