Mass notice book for St. Mary of the Angels. The entries are of a routine nature and include notices of masses, confessions, benedictions and other religious events. Reference is also made to benefactors for whom masses are to be offered.
Postcard prints of interior arrangements and altars for Catholic worship onboard several White Star Line ships including the ‘Majestic’, ‘Megantic’, ‘Olympic’, ‘Homeric’, and ‘Calgaric’.
Alumni: Sacred Congregation of Religious to Superiors General of Clerical Institutes. An Instruction On the clerical and religious training of Alumni destined for the Priesthood; and on the Inquiry to be made before the Reception of Orders.
Alumni at Mount Argus
The Passionist Congregation, St. Patrick's ProvinceT.D. Sullivan, ‘A.M. Sullivan / a memoir’ (Dublin: T.D. Sullivan, 90 Middle Abbey Street, 1885).
Reports, memoranda, and questionnaires collected and compiled by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., secretary of the Association of the Members of the Episcopal Conference in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) principally about priestly formation in the constituent countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. The file includes the following documentation:
• Record of the Inter-territorial Episcopal Meeting held at St. Joseph’s, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-26 July 1961. Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. was the recording secretary.
• AMECEA: A review of the first seven years.
• Extracts from the address by President Julius Nyerere to the Maryknoll Sisters’ General Chapter, New York. 16 Oct. 1970.
• Memorandum on the financial support of local African Ordinaries. 23 Apr. 1971.
• ‘Vocations to the Priesthood, Brotherhood, and Sisterhood in Zambia. 1970. Some factors and considerations’ by R.E.S. Tanner.
• Discussion document on the future of missionary societies by Fr. J. Glynn MM.
• Tanzania Church Inquiry. Memorandum on the pastoral position of the Catholic Church in Tanzania.
• Memorandum of the Association of Religious superiors in Eastern Africa.
• ‘The Church serving Developing Countries’. Extracts by AMECEA from a report sent to a seminar in Rome organised by a group of religious institutes active in missionary work. 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Opening address by Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli (1910-1980), Secretary of the Congregation for Evangelization, to the ‘Serving Developing Countries’ Seminar in Rome, 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Agenda and position papers at the plenary meeting of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, Rome, 25-28 June 1968. Distributed by AMECEA.
• Prospectus of the Pastoral Institute of Eastern Africa in Kampala, Uganda (1969).
• Record of the AMECEA Study Conference held at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Nairobi, Kenya, 14-21 Dec. 1973.
A photograph of four American Capuchin missionaries in Gansu Province in China in May 1929. They are seated (on left) Fr. Agatho Rolf OFM Cap. and Fr. Gabriel McCarthy OFM Cap. and standing (left) Fr. Rudolf Blockinger OFM Cap. and Fr. Sylvester Staudt OFM Cap. These were the first American Capuchins to undertake a foreign mission arriving in China in 1922. The photograph was the last to be taken of the four missionaries together.
Fr. Gabriel died of typhoid later in 1929 with Fr. Agatho succumbing to the same disease in 1931. Fr. Sylvester was transferred to a Capuchin mission in Puerto Rico in 1930. Fr. Rudolf remained a missionary in China for thirty years, working primarily in Tianshui. He was arrested by the Chinese Communist government in 1949 and was held for three years as a prisoner on charges of being an American spy. Though he was eventually found not guilty, he was expelled from China in May 1952. He was the last Capuchin missionary to be expelled from the country, enduring a nineteen-day trek to the British colony of Hong Kong. He eventually settled in Australia and continued to work as a missionary there until his death in Brisbane in 1969.
Early American Passionists: - The Passionists Sketches Historical and Personal by Rev. Felix Ward, C.P. This is mainly a history of the Passionists in America, but it also contains thumb-nail sketches of other prominent Passionists.
The ‘Amerigo Vespucci’ tall ship, a sail training vessel of the Italian Navy ('Marina Militare') at the Port of Dublin.
A photograph of a large crowd outside Westland Row Station (now Pearse Station) in Dublin, awaiting the return of released republican prisoners. Many of the prisoners had fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.