Note re jurisdictional dispute between the Irish Friars and the Pennsylvania Capuchin Province
A note regarding a jurisdictional dispute between the Irish Capuchins and the local Pennsylvania Province regarding the mission in Abbottstown. It is stated that a decree from the General Definitorium (Gen. Def.) dated 19 February 1926, ordered the Irish Capuchins to leave the place and hand the hospice over to the Province of Pennsylvania. The reason given was that it was ‘situated in the territory of the latter province’.
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- A note regarding a jurisdictional dispute between the Irish Capuchins and the local Pennsylvania Province regarding the mission in Abbottstown. It is stated that a decree from the General Definitorium (Gen. Def.) dated 19 February 1926, ordered the Irish Capuchins to leave the place and hand the hospice over to the Province of Pennsylvania. The reason given was that it was ‘situated in the territory of the latter province’.
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Albatalun Irish Prov. created a hospice there in 1911 Gen. Dep. (date: Feb. 19. 1926) Ordered that the Irish Caps. leave this place and hand over the hospice to the Province of Penny since it is substituted in the Kerreloy of the latter Province. Note: Prov. Sup. of the Penny Area. Probested from the Kerreloy against the execture of this house on an June 11. 1912, the Irish Province was told that for a new foundation in America that he should seek a region which does not beloy to the Province of Penny or that of Calvary. (acts Dept. Jen. Feb. 19. 1926)