1 - Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan

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Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan

3 pp; manuscript

Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. reporting on administrative and missionary matters. Reference is also made to the Order’s finances and property rights and to a legal and jurisdictional dispute over the Abbottstown foundation in Pennsylvania. Father Mulligan mentions a disagreement involving the Pennsylvania Capuchin Provincial. There appears to have been a challenge to the Irish Province’s claim to the Abbottstown parish, but Fr. Sylvester believes the Pennsylvania Provincial ultimately had no objective to their possession at an earlier point. He also mentions a need for ‘Seven Fathers for the West of Ireland’ and concludes with a call for perseverance, urging Father O’Callaghan to ‘keep going always’ despite the many challenges.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition