24 - Copy letter from Fr. Colman Griffin to Fr. Stephen Murtagh

24

Copy letter from Fr. Colman Griffin to Fr. Stephen Murtagh

1 p.; typescript

Copy letter from Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. regarding issues pertaining to the legal and administrative governance of the Capuchin friars in America. The Provincial Minister addresses Father Stephen’s suggestion to set a time limit for friars returning to Ireland for ‘vacations’. He clarifies that, historically, friars have no inherent right to holidays. The letter provides a timeline of when various California and Delaware locations were formally established or recognized by rescript (or official papal authorisation):
1910: Hermiston & Bend (Oregon)
1913: Roseburg (Oregon)
1923: Watts (Los Angeles)
1924: Ukiah and Santa Inez (California)
1927: Easton (California)
1930: St. Francis (Los Angeles) and Wilmington (Delaware)
1935: Establishment of the Novitiate in Wilmington
The Provincial Minister mentions that records for four houses taken over from the English Province in California are missing and that the Secretary of the English Provincial will be contacted to provide copies.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition