Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to [Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.]
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to [Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.] referring to the poor state of the Santa Inés mission. He also expresses his satisfaction on hearing of news in Ireland. He writes ‘I get the "Irish World" and occasionally "Sinn Féin" and so I am kept in touch with Irish affairs – Frank Gallagher’s Prison Daily and other articles I devour even though they pierce my very soul and make me sob like a child’. Bibby asserts that he has said mass for Erskine Childers on his anni
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- 7 Dec. 1924
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- Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to [Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.] referring to the poor state of the Santa Inés mission. He also expresses his satisfaction on hearing of news in Ireland. He writes ‘I get the "Irish World" and occasionally "Sinn Féin" and so I am kept in touch with Irish affairs – Frank Gallagher’s Prison Daily and other articles I devour even though they pierce my very soul and make me sob like a child’. Bibby asserts that he has said mass for Erskine Childers on his anniversary and will do ‘tomorrow for Rory, Liam, Dick & Joe’. He adds ‘I can never forget what was said, what certain Friars said when my dearest friend Erskine and Rory etc. were slain, oh how their bitter words tore my very soul asunder’.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. > Correspondence > Correspondence with other Capuchins
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- here on November 20th. I should principally love you to be with Br Colum & myself. I kept a smile
- & we thought it to be away, on missions, Babi you like Colum & myself would be more home loving. & other
- your Colum & myself, any involuntary like Ireland & no such people. I is pildam they never go to Sacramento here. they
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Old Mission Santa Inés Founded 1804 Bedicated 1817 Secularized 1836 Abandoned 1850 Restored 1904 Hudse Alexander Burkley, Bestor Solvang, California, Apr. 9 Dec 7 1924 (SANTA BARBARA COUNTY) A Kissy, Séspa ill, You have been very much in y thoughts of Labi, especially since I came here on November 20th. I should principally love you to be with Br Colum & myself. I kept a smile & we thought it to be away, on missions, Babi you like Colum & myself would be more home loving. & other have happy we could be. & there is broken glorious consensual work for you to do. Howelf this place is a rain & has been allowed to fall into a pictable state of wreck. decay & reglech. Babi it could be made a lovely spot. We paliformans are destroyed to the missions which they regard as their most precious historic travails & I in country on their assistance. In fact I in almost all communication with persons likely to assist us. our price is pretty small but we can live on it & when the visitor season opens about restricts well potably as all night. We have been in such a place of reglech that visitors say up coming - the quiet like for instance describe place as the "Ruins of Santa Inés." I wish you were born for the re-construction work. you be in your element & you love to have you associated with us. we have no pediatric - oral of place yet. but Labi in we hope to get them there - is no other than Saint Agnes. V. M. Rose one of the few stands to whom I had a devotion & have always for years kept her pediatric with her & thought her of them from Ireland - But it was doubtful the hand of God seems in it all. we have so catholic families in our huge parish - which consists principally of mountains, arring to leach of rain for past 6 yrs our people are in very honor arcumstances - their one hope is rain in immediate future. If they get rain now they will be paid on father again - if not they re-ruine your Colum & myself, any involuntary like Ireland & no such people. I is pildam they never go to Sacramento here. they have been regleched - fash magic or allow my for 20 yrs to pure mass & no choir for same proof. we have stored to them. we are in village of Lobrang (village of Santa Inés on ynez is 3 miles away) a Saint Colony all hutteren & expire one Catholic family running a store & a 2nd has just come - We get recasinally prunts of minking babies - a buckery - a jay of huttonick. a cake ele all mat acceptable - saving us some dollars. we have got new milk & fresh eggs on these we paraphall like, but we get meat loss & an recasinal chicken. Colum is a great cork & mat wonderful kelp - our visits identical - thank God his best. - Then we have place of mind & are away, from the hittoners which I felt so intimate at home for past few years. are this recasinals my being away from Ireland & makes the absence of friends casual to broken. I get Inés world & recasinally Sunn Fein & so I in Kepti in brief with Inés affairs - Brank Gallagheris Brason Dairy & other archies I dev…
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