Letter from Fr Matthew Gahan SJ, Isle of Man to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ, 27 January 1837
Gahan, Matthew, 1782-1837, Jesuit priest
Gahan, Matthew, 1782-1837, Jesuit priest
Bracken, Patrick, 1795-1867, Jesuit priest
Briggs, John, 1788-1861, Roman Catholic Bishop of Beverley
From Fr Matthew Gahan SJ in the Isle of Man to Fr Patrick Bracken SJ in Tullabeg. Declares that he would not think he should cross the Channel (back to Ireland) in his current state of health, and furthermore that he would only leave if the person who was to supply for him had been there for a time. Refers to the debts owed by him to various people. States that he would rather ‘die in a ditch’ before yielding to ‘a Judas like trick on the part of Dr Briggs [Bishop of the Northern District]’.
27 January 1837
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Castletown
Tullabeg
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