3 - Archival Documentation Volume and Register

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Archival Documentation Volume and Register

c.250 pp; 47 cm x 34 cm; Bound volume; manuscript, typescript, printed, and clipping

Bound volume containing a collection of manuscript, typescript and printed records relating to the administration, development and activities of the Capuchin Franciscan community at Rochestown, County Cork. The volume includes correspondence from Guardians, Provincial Ministers, the Provincial Definitory, the Minister General and the Capuchin General Curia, together with circular letters, capitular enactments, administrative resolutions, diocesan pastoral letters and ecclesiastical directives. It also contains copies of legal agreements, building contracts, architectural specifications, deeds, leases, conveyances, wills and financial accounts documenting the construction, ownership and management of the Rochestown property.

Records relating to the religious and educational life of the community include lists of resident friars, appointments, transfers, religious professions, canonical visitations, the establishment and development of the novitiate and Seraphic School, and accounts of significant ceremonies and events. The volume also preserves burial registers, a plan of the community cemetery, obituaries, memorial notices and contemporary newspaper clippings concerning individual friars, religious celebrations, public processions, missionary activities and the wider pastoral and social work of the Capuchin Order. Particular attention is given to the temperance movement associated with Father Theobald Mathew, the development of Holy Trinity Church in Cork, and the community’s connections with ecclesiastical and civic life.

The records provide an account of the institutional, spiritual, educational and social history of the Rochestown Capuchin community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The volume is in very poor condition. The spine binding has disintegrated, and the volume is missing the back cover. The volume itself is warped and several of the internal documents are folded, frayed and torn. Caution should be taken when handling the volume.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition