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CAPUCHIN GENERAL MINISTER PACIFICUS CARLETTI OF SEGGIANO 537 bilities before him. According to him, the general Curia was not equipped for an eventual housing of the museum, despite the fact that a spacious hall of the curia then served as a sort ofmission museum. Though Louis-Anthony's term ofoffice as general Definitor expired with the general Chapter of1908, he was permitted to stay on at the curia. He was yet to find out the ideal location for establishing the muse– um, when he died on 28 March 1912 without seeing the realisation ofhis dream 9 4. In fact, towards the latter part of 1911 he had toyed with the idea of displaying the collection ofartworks in the Capuchin general Curia as an extension of the mission museum. In his capacity as general Minister, Fr Pacificus now took matters into his own hands and decided to house the museum at the general Curia itself In fact, given the dire straits in which the Order then found itsel£ he had few other options open to him. Therefore he got the Order's general archivist Fr Edward ofAlen~on to write to his compatriot and caretaker of the museum Fr Leo of Lyon to reach Rome and take up the work ofordering the museum pieces in the general curia. Fr Edward was no stranger to the project of the museum as he had been assisting Louis-Anthony in keeping track of the precious cargos reaching Rome from Marseilles. The last of the cargoes reached Rome on 20 October 1913. And the museum was able to reopen in 1913, with the experienced Fr Leo ofLyon 95 as its curator. 94 There seems to be a little confusion regarding the exact date ofhis death. Y.T. Bache, La storia delMuseo Francescano di Roma. Collezione, ordinamento econservazione. Problemi affeontati e successi, Excerpta ex dissertatione ad Doctoratum in Facultate Historiae ac Bonorum Cultura– lium Ecclesiae Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae, Romae 2012, mentions 22 and 27 March 1912 as the date ofLouis-Anthony's death. On p. 31, one reads: "Dopo la morte di Louis-Antoine il 27 marzo 1912..." and on p. 36 a citation from Leo ofLyon has it as: "II reverendissimo p. Louis– Antoine essendo morto il 22 marzo 1912, non ebbe la soddisfazione di rivedere gli oggetti di que– sto ultimo invio...". TheNecrologia, inAnalecta OFMCap 28 (1912), 251-254, gives the date as"... anima primis diei 22 martii horis ad Dominum evolavit" (p. 254). However, because of its close proximity to the reported event, the general Minister's official communication of 4 April 1912 to the Order seems to be more reliable. Pacificus a Sejano,Acta Ordinis. Monitum, in Analecta OFM– Cap 28 (1912) 105, refers to the time and date ofhis death as"... prima hora post mediam noctem quae intercedit inter diem 27 et 28 mensis Martii volventis anni...". While Fr Pacificus was on the scene, Fr Leo was still in France when the founder ofthe museum breathed his last. 95 Some real prodding was required on the part ofEdward ofAlens:on to induce Leo to go to Rome. The Capuchin general Minister saw Lea's taking the responsibility of the Museum as "the right man in the right place", Practically Leo had been functioning as the curator of the Mu– seum from 1891 onwards and he would remain in office till 1923, when on grounds of ill health he would to retire to France. Bache, La storia de!Museo Francescano, 36, quotes from Lea's auto– biographical account: "II suo socio e conservatore degli elementi della sua opera a Marsiglia, fu