Note re the Abbottstown Foundation Dispute

A note outlining two administrative rulings from the Capuchin General Definitory regarding the Irish Capuchin mission in the United States during the 1920s. The first refers to the Irish friars having to leave Abbottstown, Pennsylvania (Diocese of Harrisburg). The second relates to the mandatory wearing of beards (1929).

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Level of description: Item
Date: c.1930
Reference: 1
Extent and medium: 2 pp; manuscript
Scope and content: A note outlining two administrative rulings from the Capuchin General Definitory regarding the Irish Capuchin mission in the United States during the 1920s. The first refers to the Irish friars having to leave Abbottstown, Pennsylvania (Diocese of Harrisburg). The second relates to the mandatory wearing of beards (1929).
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Irish Capuchin Foundations in the United States > Abbottstown, Pennsylvania

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Extracted Mentions

People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.

Places

Drish(4)

Terms

Dispensation(1)

Sample passages

Drish Bro. erected a hospice there in 1911.
ordered that today the Drish Friars leave this
the Drish Provincial was told that a new formulation in America he should

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Gravinia Ithernica 1) Allebatations (dioc. Harrisburg) Drish Bro. erected a hospice there in 1911. General Definitory (date Feb. 19. 1926) ordered that today the Drish Friars leave this place and hand over the Hospice to the Province of Tennessee, since that it is orientated in in the territory of latter Province. Note: the Provincial Superiors of the Tennessee Province protested from the beginning against the election of the house and on Jun. " 1912 the Drish Provincial was told that a new formulation in America he should seek a to region which does not belong to the Province of Tennessee that of Calvony. (Acta Definitorii Gentis: Feb. 19. 1926) 2) Re wearing of head in U. S.A. The The Drish Provincial and his Definitory having asked what should be done in regard to some religions in U.S.A. who share the head replied: the procedure procedure of Cursts ab too must be observed forthforthly by all and the superiors must induce legendary efforts their subjects to the discourse of this procedure: if any of the Drians repeals to alley their superiors in this matter, he is they can be warned and if they does he is not amend they can be compelled by discriminary penalties and enclosed for every superioriship. In that matter general dispensations have never been given: the faculty granted in 1918 by the Minister Greate to the Provincial of Tennessee refers only to a particular dispensation which now and again the Minister Provincial says gave to a religion for grant and temporary reasons. (Acta Definitorii Gentis: Dec. 6. 1929)