Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s reception into the Catholic Church
Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s (wife of James Connolly) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this fifteenth day of August 1916 received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lily Agnes Connolly observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Lillie Agnes Connolly and witnessed by Fiona Connolly (1907-1976)
Details
- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- 15 Aug. 1916
- Reference
- 1
- Extent and medium
- 1 p.; Autograph typescript
- Scope and content
- Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s (wife of James Connolly) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this fifteenth day of August 1916 received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lily Agnes Connolly observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Lillie Agnes Connolly and witnessed by Fiona Connolly (1907-1976)
- General note
- Fiona Connolly accompanied her mother to Dublin Castle to see her father James Connolly as he awaited execution. Three months later she was the sole witness on 15 August when her mother was received into the Catholic Church at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. > Correspondence with Lillie Connolly and Muriel MacDonagh
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Extracted Mentions
People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.
People
- Connolly(3)
Terms
- Archdiocese(1)
Sample passages
- received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lely Agnes Connolly
- Witness Juna Connolly
- Signature of newly received. Lellie Agnes Connolly
Full Transcript (OCR, 1 pages)
Machine-generated OCR transcript. Handwritten material may contain recognition errors.
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St. Mary of the Angels, CHURCH STREET. Dublin, ..... 19..... I Fr. Aloysius O.S.F.C. declare that by the authority of the Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Dublin I have this fifteenth day of August 1916 received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lely Agnes Connolly observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies B Aloysius O.S.F.C. Witness Juna Connolly Signature of newly received. Lellie Agnes Connolly