Letter from Fr Jerome O'Mahony SJ to his Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 25 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Jerome O'Mahony

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Letter from Fr Jerome O'Mahony SJ (1869-1930), 5th Canadian General Hospital, Salonika 1917 to his Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ (1867-1941), 25 May 1916. He refers to the Easter Rising 1916, a conference of chaplains in Salonika, discussion on the dispensing of carrying an ordinary altar stone for those travelling on horseback, the numbers in hospital, their ailments and the 10th Division. He praises the work of Fr. O' Connor of Clonfert diocese.Fr Jerome O’Mahony SJ was born 28 November 1869 at Kilmallock, county Limerick His family moved to Charleville, county Cork when he was a baby. Educated at the Christian Brothers, Charleville, Tullabeg and Clongowes Wood College, Fr. O’ Mahony taught at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, Mungret College, Limerick, St. Ignatius, Galway, and Crescent College, Limerick, before the war. He served as a chaplain from 1915-1919.

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 5th Canadian Gen. Hospital Salonika M.E.F. May 25th ‘16 Dear Fr. Provincial, P.C. (Pax Christi) Your Reverence will be glad for a breath of the peaceful air of Salonika amidst the stress of battle in Dublin. We get a bundle of English papers about once a week or once in ten days here & from the last batch that came I was very glad to see that things are becoming quiet & settled in Dublin. I heard on Wednesday that Dr. Walters & Fr Stafford were both killed. We had a conference yesterday of all the R.C. chaplains in Salonika district. About 19 turned up out of 21. Two S.J. of the English Province Fr. H. Day and Fr. Luck, an Irish Franciscan Fr. Dore & Irish Seculars Fr. Morrissey (Waterford) Fr O’Connor Clonfert & Fr. Farrell (Ardagh). This was the first we had but they are to take place once a month in future. Monsignor Cavendish announced that the dispensing with ordinary altar stone for chaplains who have to travel distances on horseback is under consideration & something like Agnus Dei with relics to be placed on altar to be used instead. We had over 1100 in hospital here about ten days ago & will shall have about the same number in the coming week as it is our receiving week ie the four Gen. hospitals take week in turn to receive all cases of the region that are likely to require treatment for anything over a week the milder cases giving to Casualty stations & Sta- tionary hospitals. The big numbers in hospital are the after effects of the cold and privations of the winter brought to the surface by a wetting, extra long march etc. A great many are 10th division who are about ten miles off. One section has a splendid priest seeing after them. Fr. O' Connor of Clonfert not unlike our Fr. Claffey. I have hardly found one in hospital here belonging to his Sec- tion who had not made his Easter duty. I hope all are keeping well at home. I must now conclude. With best wishes I remainrde Ral Servus in Xto Servant in Christ J.C. O’Mahony, C. F. Jerome O'Mahony Letter from Fr Jerome O'Mahony SJ to his Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 25 May 1916 St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin Letter from Fr Francis M Browne SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 21 August 1916Letter from Fr Henry Gill SJ to Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 11 July 1916Letter from Fr Patrick Morris SJ to Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 24 September 1916Letter from Fr Jerome O'Mahony SJ to his Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 25 May 1916Letter from Fr Daniel Roche SJ to his Father Provincial, Thomas V Nolan SJ,, May 1916Letter from Fr Joseph Wrafter SJ to his Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 6 July 1916Letter from Mr Henry A. Johnston SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 17 February 1916Letter from Fr Nicholas J Tomkin SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 7 June 1916Letter from Fr James Brennan SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 21 August 1916Letter from Fr Henry Gill SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 3 May 1916 Salonika, Greece Letter from Fr Jerome O'Mahony SJ to his Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ, 25 May 1916