17 - Letter from Fr. Stephen Murtagh

17

Letter from Fr. Stephen Murtagh

2 pp; typescript

Letter from Fr. Stephen Murtagh OFM Cap. to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the financial struggle to establish a Seraphic School (seminary) in Southern California. Fr. Stephen describes a sudden and ‘determined opposition’ to the proposed school from residents living near the property in Sierra Madre. Because of this opposition, Fr. Stephen is holding a $20,000 check from Bishop O’Brien uncashed while awaiting a crucial hearing on 10 October. He describes a specific property in Sierra Madre as the most desirable location – 10 miles from the friary, 25 miles from Watts, and 2 miles from Pasadena. He also expresses exhaustion over the ‘dearth of men’ available to staff their twelve houses in America.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition