Documento 35 - Pilgrimage to Rome / Bound Document and Photographic Album

A bound volume containing clippings, photographs, picture postcards, devotional material, and printed ephemera re Fr. Senan Moynihan’s visit to Rome in 1948 for a Capuchin Inter-Provincial Congress, and in 1950 as part of an Irish pilgrimage to the Italian capital. The volume contains numerous photographic postcards of various (mainly religious) sites in Europe acquired during the 1950 Holy Year pilgrimage. The pilgrimage participants included Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Margaret Mary Pearse (a sister of Patrick and William Pearse), and Cormac Breathnach, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Inserts in the volume include travel ephemera such as itineraries, tickets, receipts, menus, and tourist guidebooks. Gilt title to the volume spine reads ‘Minute Book’. The volume is a Balmoral series account book.