32 - Irish Capuchin activity in the United States

32

Irish Capuchin activity in the United States

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of an article describing the growth and success of the Irish Capuchin Order’s missionary activities in America over a fifteen-year period starting in 1910. Initiated at the request of Bishop O’Reilly, the mission began in Oregon under the leadership of Father Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., an experienced pioneer friar who previously served in Arabia, India, and Africa. The text celebrates how the friars established churches, chapels, and sacraments across previously barren stretches of the American West. Backed by their home province and the Catholic Church Extension Society of Chicago, the mission expanded its reach beyond Oregon to include dioceses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lincoln (Nebraska), and Harrisburg (Pennsylvania). The report concludes by highlighting that over thirty Irish priests and brothers are currently working in these territories, and notes the recent opening of a Seraphic College in California modeled after their home college in Rochestown, County Cork. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (15 November 1924).

ISAD(G) 2nd edition