Item 15 - The Jolly Friars

4 pp; printed

A leaflet promoting a charitable organisation titled ‘The Jolly Friars’. The document explains that in early 1969, a group of business and professional men formed ‘The Jolly Friars’ to raise funds for the Capuchin Franciscan Order through various activities, culminating in an annual Grand Ball. The document also gives a short history of the Capuchin Order. The leaflet also notes the arrival of the friars in Acadia (present day Nova Scotia and Maine) in 1632. It specifically details the Irish Capuchins arriving in Hermiston, Oregon, in 1910, and expanding to Burlingame, California, in 1926 under Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco to take over the administration of Our Lady of Angels parish.