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Testimonials for Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in relation to his claim of 'fama sanctitatis' (a cleric with a reputation for holiness). It appears that the testimonials were compiled in 1937-8. The file includes:
• Statement re a resolution of the Provincial Chapter of August 1927 which decided ‘to take definite steps regarding the introduction of the Cause of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, the Apostle of Temperance’.
• Testimony of John Francis Maguire, biographer of Father Mathew.
• Tribute of the Lord Mayor of Cork, John Francis Maguire, at the unveiling of the statue of Father Mathew in the chief street in Cork.
• Tribute of Mr. Thomas Crosbie, editor and proprietor of the chief newspaper in Cork.
• Tribute of Denny Lane, prominent Catholic public man and author.
• Interview with the late Bishop of Cork, the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan OP. The interview was conducted by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Irish Capuchin Minister Provincial, in 1913-4. It reads ‘On the occasion when the Bishop made the statement, he said that as I was interested in Father Mathew it was right he should mention a criticism which he heard about him. Some seemed to think that he [Fr. Mathew] was not sufficiently interested in his Order: on occasion his attention was drawn to some matter affecting the interests of his Province or community, and he was supposed to have made the remark that it was not his concern but Father [Louis] O’Connell’s’.
• Testimony of William Smyth O’Brien.
• Testimony of the Catholic Archdeacon of Cork.
• Extracts from the diary of James McKenna, secretary to Fr. Mathew.
• Extracts from the records of hospitals referring to cures attributed to Fr. Mathew.
• Interview with Denis Dennehy, caretaker of St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork, burial-place of Fr. Mathew.
• Sworn statement of Mr. Murphy, 3 Burke’s Avenue, Cork, referring to a cure for her daughter Kathleen, which she attributes to visits to the grave of Fr. Mathew.
• The file also includes a ‘General Statement’ in relation to Fr. Mathew’s reputation as a priest of ‘exceptional holiness and of wonderful zeal and charity’.

• Rev. Hugh O’Reilly, 'The Temperance Question: Inaugural Address delivered on the occasion of the re-opening of the old Father Mathew Total Abstinence Hall and Reading Room, Rostrevor on the 16th October 1893' (Newry: W. and S. Magowan, Printers, 1893). Printed. 36 pp.
• 'Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / “Christ’s Standard Bearers” by Rev. R. Nash SJ' (Dublin: Pioneer Central Council, 27 Upper Sherrard Street, 1946). Printed, 12 pp.
• 'Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance' (Dublin, 1941). Printed, 16 pp.
• Draft constitution and rules for a new temperance organisation outlined by a sub-committee appointed by the Father Mathew Union of Temperance Association Priests. Nov. 1952. The draft is endorsed with a note from J.A. Gleeson to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. affirming that the proposed constitution and rules will be put to the Hierarchy for their consideration. 22 Feb. 1953. Typescript, 7 pp.
• Flier re the Alvernian Society, a social guild of tertiaries and members of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association, founded to promote charitable works. c.1940. Typescript, 1 p.

Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC and others for preparing a deed of conveyance to vest Church property in nine members of the community as joint tenants and for a power of attorney from Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC (resident in Tasmania) to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC. Total cost: £33 5s 4d. 2 copies. With letters from Thomas J. Furlong to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC referring to a deed executed by Miss Maher on 19 Aug. 1897 conveying the property bequeathed to her following the death of her brother (Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, died 10 Sept. 1894) to the Capuchin community on Church Street.