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1947 - 1970 45 items
Questing for postulants and permission to make a foundation Irish hierarchy not well disposed to Irish girls making novitiate outside Ireland.

Convents in Angers, Bordeaux, Le Bouscet, Le Dorat, Lourdess, Lyon, Le Mans Little Sisters of Jesus (Charles de Foucauld) made foundation in Dublin, see convent in Dublin

For Lyon see file Convents USA, letters 16/6/1948 and Irish convents letter 19/1/1948. For Le Mans, see file Convents USA, letter 13/6/1949

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1947 - 1970 44 items
Questing for postulants and permission to make a foundation Irish hierarchy not well disposed to Irish girls making novitiate outside Ireland.

Convents in Meaux, Paris, Pau, Perigeaux, Le Puy, Roanne, St Sauveur-le Vicomte, St Germain - en-Laye, Troyes, Valence

Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. Draft memorandum on civil legislation regarding marriage contracts of Catholics in Ireland. General House in Paris seeks copies of Archbishop’s Bulls of Appointment for their archives. Reference to Fr. Le Hoch C.S.Sp.

Correspondence, mostly in French, relating to Archbishop McQuaid’s interest in Pere Lamy, who died in 1931. He was a mystic and priest of the Archdiocese of Paris and he inspired the foundation of this Institute. The Archbishop’s interest goes back to the 1930s but this correspondence begins . His interest in the House of the Institute at Oise in the diocese of Beauvais; he expedites cows from Ireland to there; he pays pension of two members at the French seminary, Rome. (see also file of St. Joseph of Cluny Sisters). The Institute is languishing due to internal and external problems, the latter involving Monsieur Charles Emmenecker, resident in Switzerland. Dr. Lea-Wilson of Dublin, is friendly. A canonical visitation takes place. Archbishop asks Msgr. Fidecicchi, Roman Rota and ‘agent of Dublin’ for advice re introducing a Cause for Canonisation for Pere Lamy. (see also section on Fr. John Charles McQuaid, pre his appointment to the See of Dublin. Dr. Lea-Wilson was the donor of the Caravaggio to the Jesuits which is now in the National Gallery of Ireland).

Malbasa, Prof. Ante, 25 bis Rue Duvivier, Paris. He was an active member of Krisari under the leadership of Archbishop Saric in Yugoslavia. Is now a refugee from Communism in Austria. Wants to come to Ireland.

An Ordinance of Louis XVIIIth concerning the Irish College, Paris, in reply to a request ef the Irish bishops, that it be administered separately from the other Colleges in Paris; tbe Minister of the Interior shauld see that the financial affairs of the Cellege are in correct order. (4 copy, in french)

The terms of the Will of Dr. Jacques de Lennan, native of Cashel. in favour of the Irish College in France and Belgium. Attached are the directions governing the special foundation to be made in the Lombard College, Paris. (In French)

Includes maps of; Cork; Paris; Presentation Convents of Ireland; Cork tourist brochure.