Documento 48 - Irish Capuchin Friars and Missionary Postcards / Photographic Album

A bound volume containing photographic prints, mostly of Irish Capuchin friars including missionaries in the United States and in Africa. The volume also includes numerous images of Capuchin houses in Ireland and missionary postcards showing Capuchins (of varying nationalities) ministering in Africa and in India. The volume was probably compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Some of the prints have later manuscript annotations.

The album includes the following prints (the numbers refer to the page reference in the volume):

2. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, with Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. at the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny.
3. A Capuchin Friar and another individual at the front entrance to Ards House (Ard Mhuire, Capuchin Friary) in County Donegal.
4. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. standing beside a biplane.
5. A Capuchin friar ascends a staircase possibly in Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal.
6. A group of Capuchin Friars (possibly novices and including Br. Timothy Phelim O’Shea and Br. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.) dressed for a theatrical performance.
7. A view of the Church and adjoining Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in County Cork.
8. A view of the exterior of the Church of St. Francis and adjoining Capuchin Friary on Walkin (now Friary) Street in Kilkenny.
9. Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. and Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap. at a funeral mass at St. Mary of the Angels Church in Dublin.
10. Studio photograph of Fr. Mark McDonnell OFM Cap. and an unidentified Capuchin friar with missionary crosses.
11. Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. conducting the funeral service of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister, at the cemetery of Rochestown Friary, County Cork. Many Capuchin friars are in attendance.
12. An aerial view of the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin. Includes extensive views of the garden fronting onto Bow Street.
13. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with an unidentified cleric and a lay person.
14. Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. with a group of schoolchildren probably in the United States.
15. The altar containing the shrine of Saint Conrad of Parzham OFM Cap. at the Friary Church, Altötting, Bavaria, Germany.
16. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi Simla, with other Capuchin bishops and missionary clerics.
17. An aerial view of the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin.
18. The installation of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls in Northern Rhodesia in 1936.
19. Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Cassian O’Shea OFM Cap., and Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap. in Rome in 1925.
20. Fr. Pete Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, with other clerics probably during a visitation to the United States.
21. A group of Capuchin friars including Fr. Fiacre Brophy OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. and Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap. with Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, on ordination day in Holy Trinity Church in Cork. 29 June 1923.
22. A group of student hurlers probably at Rochestown College, Cork.
23. The arrival of the remains of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. for burial at Mission Santa Inés in California. February 1925.
24. Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. addressing a large crowd at the opening of Father Mathew Park, Fairview, Dublin, in 1908.
25. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and an unidentified woman in Port Said, Egypt, on 1 September 1933.
26. A group of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary, Dublin, in 1922.
27. Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. in the uniform of a British military chaplain.
28. Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap. and an unidentified Capuchin friar wearing a missionary cross.
29. Fr. Camillus Killian OFM Cap. with an unidentified Franciscan Friar in the Church Street Friary garden.
30. Fr. Bernardine Harvey OFM Cap. standing on steps.
31. Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Capuchin Minister General, giving blessings to individuals outside St. Bonaventure’s Friary in Cork.
32. Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and other unidentified Capuchin friars possibly at St. Bonaventure’s Friary in Cork.
33. The exterior of the Capuchin Friary, Frascati, Rome.
34. Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. and his half-brother Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin.
35. The garden of the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin.
36. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and an unidentified individual on a beach.
37. Pilgrims rowing to the Sanctuary of St. Patrick, Lough Derg, County Donegal.
38. The exterior of Father Mathew Hall on Church Street in Dublin.
39. Capuchin friars in the garden of the Church Street Friary observe the building of a chimney at Jameson’s Distillery in Smithfield, Dublin.
40. Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap., Fr. Adrian Sharkett OFM Cap., Fr. Camillus Killian OFM Cap., Br. Francis Treacy OFM Cap., Fr. Bernardine Harvey OFM Cap.
41. Capuchin novices including Br. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Br. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Br. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap., Br. Aloysius Traves OFM Cap., Br. Stanislaus Walsh OFM Cap., Br. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. and Br. Mark McDonnell OFM Cap.
42. A large group of friars with musical instruments (violins, flutes, an accordion and banjo). The photograph was probably taken in Kilkenny.
43. Fr. Chrysostom Sutton OFM Cap.
44. A group of American Capuchin priests. Annotation on reverse reads: ‘seated, Fr. Agatho (grey beard) and Fr. Gabriel McCarthy OFM Cap. / top: Rudolf and Sylvester / made in China Tinchow, Kansu [Province of Gansu], May 1929’. The photograph shows the friars in traditional Chinese dress.
45. Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. with four of his uncles and an aunt (all of whom are religious). One of the friars is presumably Fr. Anthony Brennan OFM Cap. of Tasson (d. 1928).
46. Capuchin novices including Br. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., Br. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. and Br. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.
47. A group of Capuchin friars (including Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., Fr. Chrysostom Sutton OFM Cap. and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.) at Whitegate, Cork.
48. Studio photograph of Fr. Benignus Brennan OFM Cap. (d. 15 Apr. 1950).
49. Studio photograph of Br. Didacus Kelleher OFM Cap. (d. 3 May 1947).
50. Group of Capuchin friars at an ordination day on 29 September 1902. The group includes the Most Rev. Dr. Clarke OFM Cap., Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Fr. Finbarr O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Chrysostom Sutton OFM Cap., and Fr. Adrian Sharkett OFM Cap.
51. Fr. Aganthangelus O’Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., and Br. Alexius Pauolucci OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia.
52. Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. and a religious sister and with what appears to be a leprosy patient in India.
53. ‘In the land of the Bhils, Central India, Fr. Charles OFM Cap.’.
54. A Capuchin friars treats leprosy patients in Abyssinia.
55. Crypt at Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.
56. A Capuchin friar teaching mathematics to local school children possibly in Northern Rhodesia.
57. The exterior of the Capuchin Church on Neuer Markt in Vienna, Austria.
58. Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia OFM Cap. (1809-1889).
59. Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. and his half-brother, Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. at the Marian Grotto in Rochestown, County Cork.
60. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea on a trek to out-schools in the bush of Northern Rhodesia.
61. An Irish Capuchin friar observes work at mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
62. Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with an African family in Northern Rhodesia.
63. The exterior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa.
64. Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea and another Capuchin friar at the statute of David Livingstone at Victoria Falls in Northern Rhodesia.
65. Br. Alexius Pauolucci OFM Cap. in the savannah bush of Northern Rhodesia.
66. A student Gaelic football team at Rochestown College in County Cork, in 1929.
67. A procession of Third Order Brothers outside St. Mary of the Angels on Church Street in Dublin.