This series comprises records relating to communications mainly from the Catholic Bishops of Ossory and other ecclesiastical authorities in the diocese. It includes letters regarding appointments as confessors and chaplains, the granting of faculties, notices of religious ceremonies and communications from other religious in the locality.
Letters from the Most Rev. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe (1888-1963), granting diocesan faculties to the Capuchin friars of Ard Mhuire. The letter of 4 May 1931 reads:
'I hereby grant to the Fathers at Ard Mhuire the faculties of the diocese as our priests usually enjoy them. Apart from general or provincial reservations, there is no peculiar limitations with us, except in regard to makers of poteen or sellers of spirits (even licit) outside licensed premises'.
Diocese of Down and Connor: Embossed letterhead Typed. Bishop Daniel Megeean, Down and Connor Diocese, Trench House, Belfast. to Fr Sebastian Slean, CP, Provincial, Mt Argus. His Lordship pays tributes to the Passionists and their work in his Diocese. He mentions their being 64 in D & C, the opening of the Juniorate at Wheatfield, Missions and Retreats, and parochial work at Ardoyne.
Telephone directory for priests, religious foundations, schools and hospitals in the diocese of Raphoe.
A list of Capuchin friars attached to the Cape Town mission, South Africa. The list notes the friars ministering in Athlone, Belgravia, Bridgetown, Langa, Parow, Tyger Valley and the Welcome Estate.
A list of Capuchin friars in Cape Province, South Africa, and in the Diocese of Livingstone, Zambia. The directory gives the locations, missions, and parishes to which the friars are attached.
Directory of the Diocese of Livingstone (Most Rev. Adrian Mung’andu, Bishop) noting the number of parishes, priests, missionaries, and communicants.
Directory of the Diocese of Livingstone (the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop) noting the number of parishes, priests, missionaries and communicants.
Date: 1684
Author: Jean Richard
Publisher: A Paris, chez Jean Couterot & Louis Guerin M. DC. LXXXIV
Full title: 'Discours moraux sur les Evangiles de tous les dimanches de l’année: Composez sur les idées, principes, raisonnemens, exemples, comparaisons, figures, paroles de l’Ecriture Sainte, & des Peres. Tome Premier'.
Originally published as a four-volume series comprising:
[Extant]: Tome premier. Contenant quatorze sermons pour autant d’evangiles, depuis le premier dimanche de l’avent, jusqu’au premier dimanche de carême [...]
Tome second. Contenant treize sermons pour autant d’evangiles, depuis le premier dimanche de carême jusq'à la Pentecôte [...]
Tome troisième. Contenant treize sermons pour autant d’evangiles, depuis le dimanche de Pentecôte jusqu’au treizième [...]
Tome quatrieme. Contenant douze sermons pour autant d’evangiles, depuis le treizième dimanche d’aprés la Pentecôte jusqu'au premier dimanche de l’avent [...]
A clipping of an article referring to the cataloguing (for sale) of Douglas Hyde’s library in his former residence of Ratra in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. The article notes that Hyde’s ‘Gaelic letters and manuscripts are going to University College, Galway’ in accordance with his wishes set out in his will. The letters written in English will be retained by his family. The clipping is taken from the ‘Sunday Press’ (2 October 1949).