16 - Historical account and Biographical Register of the First Pupils of the Seraphic School, Kilkenny and Rochestown

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Historical account and Biographical Register of the First Pupils of the Seraphic School, Kilkenny and Rochestown

35 pp; 25 cm x 20 cm; Bound volume; typescript; black and white print

An historical account of the early years of the Seraphic School established by the Capuchins in Kilkenny in December 1884 and later moved (November 1886) to Rochestown in County Cork. The text was compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. The account refers to movement of the student body from Kilkenny to the novitiate in Rochestown, followed by a comprehensive, numbered master list recording the names and geographical origins of all twenty-four boys, hailing from locations across Ireland (including Cork, Kilkenny, Galway, Kerry, and Dublin) as well as Bristol, England.

The end portion of the document comprises an eight-page serialized biographical ledger providing detailed individual entries numbered 1 through 24. These biographical notices document birth years, dates of initial school admission, subsequent transfer details to Rochestown, dates of reception into the novitiate, simple and solemn profession dates, ordinations, secularizations, dispensations, and detailed notices regarding their post-clerical or missionary lives, including deaths up to 1937 and a 1940 survival status notation for Brother Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. Prominent figures tracked include early students who went on to labor in the American missions, such as Brother Luke Sheehan, Brother Stephen Hegarty, and Laurence Dowling, as well as the school’s very first ordained pupil, Brother Jarlath Hynes. The volume also contains copies of photographs of the first students of the Seraphic School.

The document provides details on the twenty-four original students of the school:

• 1. Bro. Anselm Mulligan (Bristol, England / Cork)
• 2. Bro. Benedict McDonald (Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny)
• 3. Bro. Leonard Brophy (Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny)
• 4. Bro. Clement Brazil (Newbridge, Co. Kildare / Dublin)
• 5. Bro. Augustine Hayden (Gowran, Co. Kilkenny / Blarney, Co. Cork)
• 6. Bro. Canice Rice (Kilkenny City)
• 7. Bro. Jarlath Hynes (Mountbellew, Co. Galway)
• 8. Bro. Bonaventure Halvey (Mountbellew, Co. Galway)
• 9. Bro. John Callanan (Kilkenny City)
• 10. Bro. Finbar Sullivan (Cork City)
• 11. Bro. Mark Regan (Cork City)
• 12. Bro. Luke Sheehan (Cork City)
• 13. Bro. Laurence Buckley (Cork City)
• 14. Bro. Bartholomew Herley (Cork City)
• 15. Bro. Colman Grace (Cloyne, Co. Cork)
• 16. Bro. Stephen Hegarty (Co. Kerry)
• 17. Bro. Thomas Cotter (Cork City)
• 18. Bro. Laurence Dowling (Kilkenny City)
• 19. Bro. Augustine Hayden (Blarney, Co. Cork)
• 20. Bro. Brendan Hardiman (Loughrea, Co. Galway)
• 21. Bro. Fiacre Brophy (Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny)
• 22. Bro. Sebastian O'Brien (Dublin)
• 23. Bro. Michael Butler (Kilkenny City)
• 24. Brother Martin Gorman (Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny)

ISAD(G) 2nd edition