Catholic Fundraising Appeal Pamphlet for Douglas County, Oregon
A Catholic fundraising pamphlet seemingly distributed by Fr. Camillius Killian OFM Cap. to raise money to build the first Catholic churches in Douglas County, Oregon. The pamphlet features a hand-drawn map of the county and highlights that despite an area of 4,861 square miles and 27 non-Catholic churches, the region lacks a single Catholic church. It requests five-dollar donations in exchange for having the donor’s name placed under the altar and included in annual Masses. A handwritten note ac
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- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- c.1911
- Reference
- 2
- Extent and medium
- 4 pp; printed
- Scope and content
- A Catholic fundraising pamphlet seemingly distributed by Fr. Camillius Killian OFM Cap. to raise money to build the first Catholic churches in Douglas County, Oregon. The pamphlet features a hand-drawn map of the county and highlights that despite an area of 4,861 square miles and 27 non-Catholic churches, the region lacks a single Catholic church. It requests five-dollar donations in exchange for having the donor’s name placed under the altar and included in annual Masses. A handwritten note across the sign-up section adds institutional context, stating that a ‘Fr. Aloysius [Travers]’ did not sanction the document.
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Irish Capuchin Foundations in the United States > Roseburg, Oregon
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Sample passages
- If you can afford it, may I beg you to help me build the first Catholic Church in my parish, which means the whole county.
- Address the notice of Sr. Alexander Min. Prov.
- DOUGLAS COUNTY (State of Oregon)
Full Transcript (OCR, 1 pages)
Machine-generated OCR transcript. Handwritten material may contain recognition errors.
Page 1
A Spanish Franciscan in 1492 helped Columbus to discover America, and Franciscans have been helping since to make it Catholic. An Irish Franciscan on the Pacific Coast sends you this, and kindly asks you to consider: DOUGLAS COUNTY (State of Oregon) covers an area of 4861 square miles or three million acres; has a population of 21,410. Has 27 NON-CATHOLIC CHURCHES But has not EVEN ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH If you can afford it, may I beg you to help me build the first Catholic Church in my parish, which means the whole county. Those who donate, or get donated, Five Dollars towards this urgent need will have their names preserved on parchment beneath the Altar in the Church, and Mass offered for them annually. Name _____ Address This Document was brought under Name _____ Address the notice of Sr. Alexander Min. Prov. Name _____ Address who did not sanction it. It is Name _____ Address not therefore building on the Fathers Name _____ Address in Roseburg, Ore. U.S.A. Name _____ Address _____ Name _____ Address _____ Name _____ Address _____ Name _____ Address _____ Name _____ Address _____ Name _____ Address _____ Name _____ Address _____ Please reply to REV. CAMILLUS KILLIAN, O. S. F. C. Roseburg, Oregon.