16 - Circular letter from Fr. James O’Mahony

16

Circular letter from Fr. James O’Mahony

2 pp; typescript

Circular letter from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. marking the golden jubilee of the establishment of the Western United States mission by the Irish Capuchin friars. The letter reads ‘It was in the year 1910 that the first Bishop of Barker City, Most Revered Doctor O’Reilly, appealed to us for help. His appeal found a sympathetic hearing even at a time when we were not rich in numbers. … It is gratifying to know that the first Capuchins, who went from Ireland to the West, participated from the beginning in the life of Diocese of Baker City. But it is with a certain exaltation of spirit that the great pioneer, Father Luke [Sheehan] of Cork, distributed the Palms and Mass at Hermiston in 1910 for the first time in the history of that town’.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition