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- c.1880-1887 (Creation)
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60 pp; 27 cm x 21.5 cm; Bound volume; Newspaper cuttings, printed and manuscript
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Biographical history
Baptismal name: James Guy
Religious name: Fr. Benvenutus Guy OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 4 May 1860
Place of birth: Trim, County Meath
Name of father: Patrick Guy
Name of mother: Bridget Guy (née McMahon)
Ministries: Founded the Church Street Catholic Boys’ Brigade in Dublin March 1894. He also acted as the organisation’s first president. He left the Capuchin Order, moved to England, and was incardinated into the Diocese of Middlesbrough in 1899. He served as a Chaplain to the Forces during the First World War.
Date of death: 9 November 1927
Place of death: Halifax, England
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Newspaper cuttings book. The front cover has a manuscript title: ‘Valuable paper cuttings referring chiefly to Cork Friary and Church in [the] early eighties of the 19th Century. Collected by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC when a student’. The volume contains a numbered index which includes references to the following items:
• The new Capuchin Convent, Cork. 'Daily Herald', 5 July 1884.
• The Church of the Holy Trinity. 'Cork Daily Herald', 2 Dec. 1883.
• The new Capuchin Convent. 'Cork Examiner', 4 June 1884.
• Retreat at Holy Trinity Church. Undated.
• Notice of the General Chapter of the Capuchin Order. 1884.
• Notices of the arrival of expelled French Capuchins in Cork. November 1880.
• Circular appealing for funds for the completion of the Cork Capuchin Church according to the modified design by Pugin & Ashlin. (See CA HT/5/1).
• Article on Father Mathew’s Church, Cork.
• Notice from the 'Freeman’s Journal' regarding the unfinished state of Holy Trinity Church. 1883.
• Several notices of temperance demonstrations in Cork. The index notes that there was ‘no contingent from Holy Trinity – Belgian superiors there at the time’.
• Report on the Bishop of Cork’s blessing of the bell at Holy Trinity Church. The index notes that ‘the bell is now over the choir and sacristy. When we returned from France [in] 1879 the bell on Holy Trinity was cracked’.
• Letter to the 'Tablet', London, regarding the condition of Father Mathew Church, Cork, probably written by Mr. Jerome Murphy, described as ‘a most devoted friend to our community’.
• Circular appealing for funds for the completion of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
• Report on a temperance demonstration in Cork. 1887.
The volume also contains numerous cuttings of advertisements and articles some of which were taken from French newspapers.
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Language of material
- English
- French