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Very attractive and historic real photo postcard showing Reverend Patrick Bowen Murphy - Chaplain Legion Spanish War Veterans. Sent to the Reverend Fr. P.F. McLaughlin, St. Boniface's Industrial School, Banning California from South Framingham Saxony, Massachusetts.
According to the amazing diarmuidlynch.weebly : (more at site) Patrick Bowen Murphy (May 17, 1850 - May 1, 1929), was an Irish born, American Roman Catholic priest.
He took part in the 1898 Spanish-American War as Chaplain to the Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was a member of the Arundel Art Society of London; of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society; an honorary member of the Grattan Literary Association and member for life of the Congregation of Laval, Quebec, Canada.
For many years, he was state chaplain of the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus, an active member of Division 1, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Boston, a member of Simpson Assembly, No. 169, Royal Society of Good Fellows, chaplain-in-chief of the Legion of Spanish War Veterans and most of his clerical vocation was spent ministering to the Roman Catholic communities in Massachusetts, the parishes of Natick, Saxonville and South Boston.
But, the Rev. Murphy was also an Irish American revolutionary, a member of the Fenians (and later Clann na Gael), the secret Irish-American political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated to the establishment of an independent republic of Ireland and complete independence from Britain.
Murphy was a close friend of John Boyle O’Reilly (the famous Irish American poet, journalist & Fenian escapee from the West Australian convict prison) and both took part in the dramatic 1870 Fenian Raid on Canada.
Sent 1906, undivided back with light corner bumping and toning. Very Fine condition.
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