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Sheil, Leonard, 1897-1968, Jesuit priest and missionary Item
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Letter to Fr Leonard Sheil SJ from Cardinal John Heenan

Letter to Fr Leonard Sheil SJ from Cardinal John Heenan telling Fr Sheil that he is re-writing 'Our Faith', ‘So much has changed since the council that the attitude & culture of the Catholic have to be tilted differently.’

Heenan, John Carmel, 1905-1975, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal

Letters and notes, mostly from Professor Patrick Fitzgerald concerning Fr Leonard Sheil’s’ cancer

  • IE IJA J/16/15
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  • 20 January 1966 - 24 February 1967
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters and notes, mostly from Professor Patrick Fitzgerald to Fr Leonard Sheil’s Superiors, concerning Fr Sheil’s’ cancer. Includes:

  • letters from Prof. FitzGerald (Fr Sheil’s surgeon) to Irish Fr Provincial Brendan Barry SJ, informing him of Fr Sheil’s condition (4 items);
  • letter from Fr Sheil (St. Mary’s Open-air Orthopaedic Hospital, Finglas, Dublin 11) to the Irish Fr Provincial, quoting Prof. FitzGerald’s opinion that it would ‘be better’ for Fr Sheil to get back to work, ‘physically, psychologically and morally!’ (2 Mar. 1966, 1p.) and
    – letter from Fr Sheil to Fr Brendan Lawler (Irish Fr Provincial’s Socius) seeking help in arranging his trip to Dublin to see Prof. FitzGerald (9 Feb. 1967, 1p.)

Fitzgerald, Patrick Alexis Martin, 1911-1978, surgeon