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February 1930.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1436,397,561,42" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-8", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "My Dear Father Brendan", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=355,533,614,51" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-9", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I have not written sooner, because I took it for granted that you had not got my letter when you wrote your of the 20th February, in which I explained that the situation is such that the Superiors in Rome can do nothing to regularise the house in Baltimore. I repeat the assurance I gave you that everything was done that could be done in 1928. It was then decided that if the Superiors of any of the Provinces offered no opposition to the foundation of a Friary the General Definition would not oppose such a foundation. There is no way out of the present impasse. The Calvary Fathers freely gave their consent to the recent foundations by the Italian Friars, when they were interrogated by Father General.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1030,589,1217,36" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-10", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Let me remind you of an official statement sent to Rome in January 1928, signed by all the Irish Definitors and preserved in the Curial Archives, in which the following occurs \"We do not seek foundations in dioceses where there are houses of the Order\".", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1026,1044,1164,39" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-11", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I might add subsecreto that a not unsimilar case has very recently happened in which certain Friars entered into territory reserved to others, at happening in which the Bishop and the General Definition decided the withdrawal of the said Friars or else submission to the jurisdiction of the Superiors into whose territory they had gone without authorisation. I did not think that our Irish Brethren would consent to live under the jurisdiction of the Father Provincial of Pittsburgh: I for one would not favour such a solution. The truth is a hundred precedents are against you and not even one in your favour.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1028,1227,1183,38" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-12", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "You are under a misapprehension as to the power of the General Definition: it has no power to alter or modify the boundaries of any Provinces: practice reserved to the Holy See by Can. 494. And when those who know the practice of the S. Congregations tell us the Holy See will not intervene unless both parties agree, why should any one do the foolish thing of courting a refusal and of leaving very unpleasant memories behind.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1019,1628,1130,44" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-13", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "If you still persist in believing that the question of recognition depends on my good will or on my efforts I can only repeat that such is not the case and bear in silence what I consider a wrong", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1019,1944,1163,42" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-14", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I am writing this to you in an unofficial capacity knowing that it will not go beyond yourself, in order that you may find it easier to submit to the inevitable.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1023,2075,1122,47" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-15", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "With all good wishes", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1025,2254,554,41" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-16", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I am, My Dear Fr. Brendan,", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1233,2298,723,47" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-17", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Yours fraternally in St. Francis", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1332,2347,890,42" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/221678/p01.json#anno-18", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "D. 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Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., General Definitor, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. regarding the impasse over the Irish Capuchins’ house in Baltimore. Fr. Sylvester explains that the superiors in Rome’ (the General Definitory) cannot officially ‘regularize’ or recognize the Baltimore foundation because of established territorial rules. He reminds Fr. Brendan of an official statement from 1928 stating, ‘We do not seek foundations in dioceses where there are houses of the Order’. Because the Pittsburgh Fathers already had a presence in the region (Cumberland and Washington), the Irish Province is technically encroaching." ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Repository" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Context" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Correspondence of Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan" ] } } ], "summary": { "en": [ "Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., General Definitor, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. regarding the impasse over the Irish Capuchins’ house in Baltimore. Fr. Sylvester explains that the superiors in Rome’ (the General Definitory) cannot officially ‘regularize’ or recognize the Baltimore foundation because of established territorial rules. He reminds Fr. Brendan of an official statement from 1928 stating, ‘We do not seek foundations in dioceses where there are houses of the Order’. " ] }, "thumbnail": [ { "id": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT221678.jpg/full/200,/0/default.jpg", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg" } ], "navDate": "1930-01-01T00:00:00Z" }