Item 170 - Letter from Fr Joseph Mulhall SJ, concerning the names he would recommend for [Superior of St. Ignatius]

Born: 22 March 1820, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 21 September 1839, Oude Abdij, Drongen, Belgium - Belgicae Province (BELG)
Ordained: 1855
Final Vows: 08 December 1860
Died: 13 February 1897, St Ignatius Church, Church Road, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1839-1841: Oude Abdij, Drongen, Belgium (BELG), , Novitiate
1841-1842: Collège Notre-Dame de la Paix, rue de Bruxelles, Namur, Belgium (BELG), Philosophy
1842-1852: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Regency
1852-1856: Utrecht College, Utrecht, Netherlands (NER), Theology
1856-1859: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Teaching
1859-1860: Church of Saint Eusebius 'all'Esquilino', Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Italy (ROM), Tertianship
1860-1865: Clongowes Wood, College SJ, Naas, County Kildare, Teaching
1865-1866: Milltown Park, Sandford Road, Dublinn, Minister, Procurator, Spiritual Exercises
1866-1870: St Patrick’s College SJ, Cathedral Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Teaching
1870-1897: St Ignatius Church, Church Road, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Minister, Procurator, Curate
1878-1890: Superior from 20/04/1878 to 01/01/1890, Procurator, Curate; Mission Consultor
1890-1897: Prefect of Church, Curate and Parish School; Mission Consultor

◆ HIB Menologies SJ :
He first went to work in HIB Colleges having completed his studies in Holland and Rome.
1866 He was sent to Australia. Nearly al of his time there was spent at Richmond, and he was Superior there for a good number of years.
A very painful spinal disease, for which an operation proved unsuccessful brought him the loss of a lot of strength and finall death at Richmond 13/02/1897.

He had remarkable energy and zeal in education, including founding the Convent of the FCJ’s for teaching girls in the school attached to the parish. He was also responsible for the completion of the St Ignatius Church at Richmond.

Note from Isaac Moore Entry :
1866 He accompanied Joseph Mulhall to Melbourne

◆ David Strong SJ “The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848-2015”, 2nd Edition, Halstead Press, Ultimo NSW, Australia, 2017 - ISBN : 9781925043280

Joseph Mulhall entered the Society, 22 September 1839, and was ordained in 1850. He worked first in Jesuit colleges in Belgium and Holland, and spent a year at Milltown Park, 1865-66, as minister. He also gave retreats.

On 12 April 1867 he arrived in Melbourne and went to the parish of Richmond where he worked for 30 years. During those years he was minister, procurator and consulter, as well
superior and parish priest, 1878-93. He was also in charge of the sodalities for women and boysand was a consultor of the mission.

Mulhall developed a very painful spinal disease, for which a surgical operation proved unsuccessful. This resulted in loss of strength and finally, death. He displayed at all times
remarkable energy and zeal for the schools in his region and established the Convent of the Faithful Companions of Jesus within the parish of Richmond. It was during his time as pastor that the large parish Church was finally built.