Letter from Fr. Edward Fesenmeyer
Letter from Fr. Edward Fesenmeyer OFM Cap. outlining statistics in respect of the Catholic populace around Elk in Mendocino County in California. He reports a total Catholic population of approximately 530 people. He notes that of those, only 112 attended their ‘Easter Duties’ that year. He describes the majority of this population as being of Italian race and observes, somewhat regretfully, that they are ‘unfortunately very indifferent to things Catholic’.
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- Date
- 8 June 1920
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- 2
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- 3 pp; manuscript
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- Letter from Fr. Edward Fesenmeyer OFM Cap. outlining statistics in respect of the Catholic populace around Elk in Mendocino County in California. He reports a total Catholic population of approximately 530 people. He notes that of those, only 112 attended their ‘Easter Duties’ that year. He describes the majority of this population as being of Italian race and observes, somewhat regretfully, that they are ‘unfortunately very indifferent to things Catholic’.
- General note
- Fr. Edward Fesenmeyer OFM Cap. severed as pastor at Blessed Sacrament Church in Elk, California, from 1915 to 1922.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Other Correspondence
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- Greenwood(1)
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- from what I am Cold , Greenwood
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