Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan

Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. reporting on administrative and missionary matters. Reference is also made to the Order’s finances and property rights and to a legal and jurisdictional dispute over the Abbottstown foundation in Pennsylvania. Father Mulligan mentions a disagreement involving the Pennsylvania Capuchin Provincial. There appears to have been a challenge to the Irish Province’s claim to the Abbottstown parish, but

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Date: 19 Apr. 1926
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Extent and medium: 3 pp; manuscript
Scope and content: Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. reporting on administrative and missionary matters. Reference is also made to the Order’s finances and property rights and to a legal and jurisdictional dispute over the Abbottstown foundation in Pennsylvania. Father Mulligan mentions a disagreement involving the Pennsylvania Capuchin Provincial. There appears to have been a challenge to the Irish Province’s claim to the Abbottstown parish, but Fr. Sylvester believes the Pennsylvania Provincial ultimately had no objective to their possession at an earlier point. He also mentions a need for ‘Seven Fathers for the West of Ireland’ and concludes with a call for perseverance, urging Father O’Callaghan to ‘keep going always’ despite the many challenges.
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Correspondence of Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan

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By return of Pat you might send me a Copy of the agreement made with the Bishop by us when we took took over the place - I wish I could form that the present Bishop does not mean t…
leg of the Bishop - and Could get him to be for our story there if it should be found necessary. You have always been in very friendly terms with them and I am sure they would be s…
These documents I have had Copies and in a long labor letter signed by the definition I have clearly formed the point. And sent the whole

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Confidential church lt Labelini 19:4:26 My Dear F. Brendan I cannot tell you how very grateful I am for your letters and for the handsome Cheque in one of them. It is such a godsond as the Provincial Coppers were compoletely depleted - It is a year or half since we got a princy from Fr. Joseph & in the manner we have sent out 3 or 4 prests whose capacities had to be paid. Indeed they are not yet paid (some of them) yet. When I am in Rome I shall try to recure for your permission for New Island & you are still of a mind to go - Because to write we again reminding me of it. Ament the Albottstown business have been working like a nailer. Have documents to prove that we got Albottstown without Cardelan in 1912 when we had been there twelve months time. These documents I have had Copies and in a long labor letter signed by the definition I have clearly formed the point. And sent the whole thing to M. R. Fr General Himself. I think Fr. Antoninus let us down hardly in not telling us the question was in Rome. Looshe to him & said so indirectly - And in the letter to Fr. General I said it directly - Before writing I went over to Pantasaph & interviewed Fr. Anthony who was our Representative at the time - and he maintains there was never any time limit to our pursuis of Albottstown - In any Care I have Fr. Anthony's letter at the time saying the Pennsylvanian Provincial made in further objection. Persually I believe the case is incausewealth so if we must give it up - we shall do so in appropriate of the fact that it was given us definitely irrevocably 14 years ago - By return of Pat you might send me a Copy of the agreement made with the Bishop by us when we took took over the place - I wish I could form that the present Bishop does not mean to give the place to the Pettong Friars - You know the order is to be made it up not to the Bishop but to the Provincial of Pettong. I am sure the Sisters in Albottstown have their 3 leg of the Bishop - and Could get him to be for our story there if it should be found necessary. You have always been in very friendly terms with them and I am sure they would be surely to see us go - & Course that would only be a less resource - Not so anything until I hear how my Care is going in Rome - Persually I believe the Care I have made is incausewealth pullers the Province was willfully desired at the time - When is Fr. Western Coming home? Hold him I should capture him as soon after Easter as he could get - We are over Cowder with Missors - that is go to Belford myself from fortnight & now we are asked for Seven Fathers for next & Choter there - Not overwork yourself - No one can keep going always - So the very comfort - With all good wishes and a request for persons - Yours always Noonly Fr. Sylvester