Item 8 - Spiritual Factors in Burlingame Life

1 p.; clipping

A clipping from article highlighting the impact of the Irish Capuchin friars on the spiritual life of Burlingame, California, focusing heavily on the character of their new pastor, Father Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. It lauds Father Dowling as a ‘seasoned intellectual’ and a distinguished leader whose profound practical interest in people balances his vast learning and supernatural zeal. The text acknowledges the deep debt the Archdiocese of San Francisco owes to the Irish Capuchin Province, noting that sending a former provincial of Father Dowling’s national fame was like giving the region ‘one of its stars’. The clipping is taken from ‘The Monitor’ (20 December 1930).