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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.

The ‘Amerigo Vespucci’ tall ship, a sail training vessel of the Italian Navy ('Marina Militare') at the Port of Dublin.

Note requesting the proper translation into latin of some ammendments made in the Constitution by Msgr Riberi.

My dear Father Prior,
I call upon your great charity to come to my aid in an urgent need. I have just returned from France where I met Mgr. Ribere. He has made some alterations in Chapter 1 of the Constitutions. Also, he did not think to Latin expressed the English version.

May I ask you please to put Chapter 1 and 4 into good Latin and post them back to me as soon as possible. When you have Chapter 1 done, post it back. I shall have it printed. Mgr. Ribere is to be in Rome in the first week of December. It is absolutely necessary I have them with him as soon as possible, as he has promised to present them personally to the Sacred Congregation Propaganda for me.

I saw Dom David and he says you are the one that could put this into really not overworked. I can send you Miss Leyden at any time to help with the packing, etc., at the end of the term so as not to overstrain Nurse, put Miss Feeney at work too soon.

Please thank Dom Matthew for his letter. I shall be only too happy to look over bills and mark some.

Dear Father, if the enclosed is impossible for you to do within the next few days, please return them at once to me, as it is very urgent and important to have them done at once.

Please thank Mary for her letter. I shall write in a day or so, the sale was a great success

Good Latin we are anxious to have the Chapters of our own well done

all the Art: of the Company of Mary. They have already good French to refer to; if they are in doubt.

No official news from Dublin yet. May God grant me patience. Miss Kean goes to Africa at the end of December. I missed Miss Feeney. I hope she is better and that Nurse is

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.

A letter from Patrick Collins, 6 Clonmore Road, Ballybough, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of an account of the final hours and execution of Seán Hueston in Kilmainham Jail on 8 May 1916. The account was written by his uncle who was a relation of Seán Hueston. Reference is made in the account to the ministrations to Heuston by Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.