1 - Chronicle of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States

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Chronicle of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States

7 pp; bound volume; manuscript

A notebook containing a short chronicle authored by Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap., detailing the earliest foundations and missionary assignments of the Irish Capuchins in the United States from 1910 through to the late 1920s. The notes refer to chronological milestones, beginning with the 1910 foundations in Bend and Hermiston, Oregon, under Bishop O’Reilly, leading into the establishment of the Mendocino missions in California (including Ukiah, Mendocino City, Elk, and Fort Bragg) and the canonical acquisition of Old Mission Santa Inés in 1924. Reference is also made to leadership successions and specific pastoral appointments, noting Fr. Luke Sheehan as the first Superior of the American Missions (1910-1922), followed by Fr. Joseph Fenelon in 1922, alongside early operational assignments for friars like Fr. Anthony Holmes, Fr. Leo Sheehan, Fr. Raphael Quinn, Fr. Ambrose Brunton, Fr. Pacificus McCaffery, and Fr. Sebastian Brennan.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition