5 - Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC

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Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC

2 items; Manuscript and typescript

Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC regarding a story told to him by the Most Rev. Thomas Francis Hendricken (1827-1886), Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, during a visit to Kilkenny in c.1873. The story concerns a false accusation made against a priest by a young woman in the early 1830s. Fr. O’Dea also referred to his temperance ministry in India where the 2nd Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment were quartered. With a typescript note by Fr. Angelus.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition