15 - Copy letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling

15

Copy letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling

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Copy letter from Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. regarding confirmation of the Irish Capuchins acquiring a new parish in Burlingame which they intend to name Our Lady of Angels. He writes ‘All the other Orders have splendid locations, and it was derogatory to have a purely Irish foundation where there was place only for a junior curate. It is quite evident to me that were it not for Monsignor Cantwell we would be left here to rot, so there was a Providence in my coming out after all. The V.G. was to go today to mark the boundaries of our new Parish and promised to do the best he could for us, that is, give us as much of built-up territory as he could in reason knock off Burlingame. I had confirmation of our settlement next week today for Monsignor Cantwell phoned me to say the name I had already given him for the new Parish — Our Lady of Angels’.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition