Item 17 - Tributes and Funeral Coverage of the Late Father Bernard Jennings

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Newspaper cuttings from the ‘Cork Examiner’, documenting civic tributes, biographical details, and the interment of Father Bernard Jennings OFM Cap. The left column records a special meeting of the Cork Street-Trading Committee at the Municipal Buildings, where a formal resolution of condolence was passed praising Father Bernard's noble work in rehabilitating the ‘waifs and strays’ and poor boys of Cork city. The upper right column outlines his ecclesiastical career, highlighting his early ministry at the Holy Trinity Church in Cork, his term as Superior of the Church Street Friary in Dublin, his election as Provincial Minister of the Irish Capuchin Province in 1893, and his return to Cork as Superior until late 1904. The lower right column details his final interment in the churchyard at Rochestown, describing the massive, ecumenical gathering of civic leaders, merchants, and working-class citizens who assembled to honour the humble friar.