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Dossier Papers of the Irish Capuchin Missions in Africa
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Capuchin Friars in Cape Town

Photographic prints of Capuchin friars at a meeting in Cape Town. The print wallet suggests that the images were taken in January 1989 and were addressed to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap. Includes some images of receptions which were attended by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. The file also includes negative sheets for the prints.

Mission Scrapbook of Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap.

Scrapbook of Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989) re the history and personnel of the Irish Capuchin mission in Africa. Fr. Albeus arrived in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1942. The scrapbook includes cuttings from missionary periodicals including 'The Father Mathew Record', hand-drawn maps of mission stations and churches, and personal recollections and memoranda by Fr. Albeus re the Capuchin mission in Africa. The volume contains the following sections:
• Photographic prints of the early Irish Capuchins missionaries: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.; Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap.; Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap.; Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.; Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.
• List of African missions of the Capuchin Franciscan Order (with the names of mother provinces).
• Calendar of priests in the Irish Capuchin mission to Africa arranged under year, number and total. The calendar runs from 1929-39.
• Personal and mission record (with photographic prints) for Irish Capuchin friars in Africa. Details are given of where the friars were stationed and the duration. Information is given in respect of:
Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. First Superior of African Missions.
Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. (with postcard print of the Church at Parow, South Africa, dedicated on 8 Dec. 1935).
Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (with circular letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. re the appointment of Fr. Killian as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls).
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980)
Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap.
Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.
Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap.
Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.
Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983)
Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (1898-1983)
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. (died in Northern Rhodesia in 1944)
• Calendar of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia and South Africa from 1929-38 giving details of where stationed and the time spent at each mission station. (pp 42-3).
• ‘The religion of the Blacks’. Manuscript. Sub-title reads: ‘Paper read for the Bonaventure’s Philosophical and Historical Society, Tuesday, January 17th 1937’. (insert at p. 47). The article was possibly compiled by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.
Maps include:
• Districts of Northern Rhodesia showing density of population. (p. 9)
• Detailed manuscript map showing locations of various Christian missionary stations in Northern Rhodesia. (p. 11).
• Map of Northern Rhodesia showing areas of Tsetse-Fly and Sleeping Sickness infestation (p. 15).
• Map re population and infant mortality in Northern Rhodesia (p. 17).
• Printed map of Cape Town, South Africa (p. 22).
• Manuscript map of the Cape Province, South Africa, showing principal towns and the locations of Capuchin churches at the Welcome Estate, Matroosfontein, Parow, Langa and Athlone. Scale: 2 miles to 1 inch. The key also provides the distances between the aforementioned mission churches. (Insert at p. 27).
• Population map of Barotseland (arranged by district). With information re the number of Protestant schools in the region. (p. 45).
Photographic prints include:
• Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. crossing the River Kafue, Northern Rhodesia, with a truck on a barge. Aug. 1937. (p. 27).
• Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap. with altar boys. (p. 27).
• St. Louis Mission School at Langa; Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. (priest at Langa in 1935); groups of children at Langa, with Sister Romana and Sister M. Vianney. (p. 29).
• Missionary scenes at Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (p. 33).
• The Friary at Livingstone and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (p. 34).
• Missionary scenes at Loanja, Northern Rhodesia. With Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (p. 37).
• Prints from 'The Father Mathew Record' of the ‘first Christians at Loanja, Easter, 1936’; ‘adult Christians at Loanja and a group at St. Francis’s School, Livingstone’. (p. 39).
• Br. Dominick O’Callaghan OFM Cap. (p. 44).
• The three Capuchin churches in Africa: Parow, Livingstone, and Athlone (p. 48).
• Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. (full length portrait); Sr. M. Vianney at Langa in 1936; First communion group at Langa, 1936. (p. 49).
• Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (half-length portrait). (p. 50).
• Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (half-length portrait). (p. 51).
The volume also contains newspaper cuttings re a Capuchin-organised pilgrimage to Knock, County Mayo, organised by Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. and Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap. (p. 66).

MacQuillan, Albeus, 1913-1989, Capuchin priest

Mission News and Bulletins

Information fliers giving news of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Zambia. Includes reports from Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap., and Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. With statistics and personnel information re friars in the Diocese of Livingstone and in the Cape Province, South Africa.

Record of Baptisms at the Loanja Mission

Notebook containing a record of the baptisms at the Loanja mission, Bartoseland, Northern Rhodesia. The record (which includes entries of adult baptisms and references to 'articulo mortis' or 'at the moment of death') was compiled by Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980). The entries are listed under local (birth) name, tribe, village, Christian name, date of baptism, minister officiating, date, and in some instances date of death and place of burial. The end pages of the volume also contain miscellaneous notes re baptisms at the mission. With manuscript annotations (in Irish) by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. re Fr. Seraphin.

Nesdale, Seraphin, 1897-1980, Capuchin priest

African Mission Album of Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap.

Photographic album of Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005). The album contains un-captioned black and white photographic prints. Fr. Albert was resident in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) from 1945-67. The volume contains captioned prints relating to Fr. Albert’s ministry in the country including:
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with first communicants in Livingstone.
• Interior views of the High Altar and Sanctuary of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone.
• An aerial view of St. Theresa’s Church and the surrounding suburbs of Livingstone.
• Views of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia.
• Altar servers.
• Excursion trips for Altar servers.
• First Holy Communion Day in Livingstone in 1948 and 1952. The names of the parents and children are given in captions.
• The wedding of Mr and Mrs Butcher in Livingstone.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) with African religious sisters at an air-strip in Northern Rhodesia.

Hayes, Albert, 1915-2005, Capuchin priest

Victoria Falls Photographic Album

A collection of colour photographic prints of Victoria Falls and the surrounding area (including Livingstone Island and Forest Gorge) compiled by Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap. The file includes some postcard prints. Some of the prints also show Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap., Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap. and Fr. Declan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. The file includes a typescript copy of an ‘Extract from Dr. David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels on the Zambezi’. The album was compiled by Br. Andrew O’Shea in 1982. The prints are captioned and are held in plastic sleeves. The prints have been removed from the ring folder.

O’Shea, Andrew, 1907-1986, Capuchin brother

Northern Rhodesian Missionary Photographs

Photographic prints of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. The prints are extant on loose cards taken from a photographic album (CA AMI/2/10/1/2). Most of the prints have been annotated:
Capuchin friars at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Livingstone Capuchin Friary.
Confirmations at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap.
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940.
‘Fathers, Sisters and girl boarders, Easter 1941’.
The mission car in 1941.
A trek to a mission station in 1937.
‘Hoisting a roof on a mission hut’.
A local cook with his wife at an Irish Capuchin mission station.
The building of the first Capuchin mission church in 1938.
The interior of a mission church in 1939.
Local game shot outside the mission grounds.
Preparations for an eight-week trek through the bush.
The Capuchin community in Sichili in 1937 (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.).
A local teacher and altar servers.
The building of the father’s dwelling at a mission station.
Scenes on the way to Sesheke (including the local chief’s hut).
The Parish Church and Capuchin Friary in Livingstone.

Mission Churches and Buildings

A collection of mostly un-captioned photographs of mission churches, schools, hospitals, and other buildings in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' and 'The Capuchin Annual'.
The captioned photographs include images of:
• New church at Mankoya mission station.
• Blessing of the church at the leper compound in Mangango.
• St. Mary’s Girl Boarding School, Maramba (run by the Franciscan Sisters for Africa).
• Front view of the administrative block of the college attached to St. Francis Mission, Malengwa, Mongu. Aug. 1967.
• Holy Cross Convent, Sichili.
• A temporary oratory in the bush.
• A scene near the Sancta Maria mission station.
• First Church at St. Francis Mission, Malengwa, Mongu, built in 1948.
• Primary school at St. Michael’s, Kalabo (built by Br. Joseph Murphy OFM Cap., 1929-2009).
• The old friary building at Maramba.
• Exterior of St. Theresa’s Cathedral, Livingstone.
• A barge landing on a steep bank with steps leading to the land.
• Interior and exterior of St. Lawrence’s Church, Limulunga, Apr. 1970.
• Exterior of Malengwa Church, Mar. 1968.
• Opening day of the Holy Family Church probably at Katima Mulilo.
• Interior and exterior of Lourdes Church, Mongu.
• New church at Shimano, Mangango Mission.
• Mangango Leprosarium Church.
• Church at Kalabo (built by Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap., 1901-1998).
• Church at Mangango.
• Parish Church of St. Joseph, Mangango.
• Church at Sihole.
• Exterior view of the Church of Christ the King, Maramba, Livingstone.
• Maria Assumpta Primary School, Livingstone / ‘One of our first schools’.

Mission Photographs of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988) relating to missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Fr. Alfred ministered in Africa from 1942-73. The file also includes some prints of missionary friars in South Africa. Most of the prints have not been annotated. The file includes images of:
Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap.
Fr. Anthansius (Noel) Winston OFM Cap.
St. Matthew’s Church, Bonteheuwel, South Africa.
The wedding of two teachers at Sancta Maria Mission School in Lukulu.
Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap. in Cape Town on the occasion of his silver jubilee in Nov. 1982.
Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap.
Friars in Northern Rhodesia on the occasion of Fr. Alfred’s silver jubilee.
Religious sisters with local children and parishioners.
Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with local religious sisters and parishoners.
Victoria Falls.
Local weddings.
Mission churches and buildings.
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
Dr John Roche in Sichili in Sept. 1964.
Scenes along the Zambezi River.

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