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A report on Irish Capuchin missions in the Cape Province at Parow, Matroosfontein, Athlone, and Langa. Reference is made to the building and staffing of churches, friaries, schools, and halls at these locations.

Return of mission personnel in Northern Rhodesia (St. Therese) Livingstone; Sancta Maria (Lukulu, Mongu); St. Fidelis (Sichili); St. Joseph (Mankoya) and in Cape Town, Church of the Immaculate Conception (Parow parish); St. Mary of the Angels (Athlone parish).

A manuscript map showing the locations of stations and churches founded by Christian (mainly Protestant) denominations in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). A reference key gives the dates of arrival of the various congregations and groups in the country. The map is extant on p. 11 in the volume.

Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. on the veranda of Livingstone Friary, Northern Rhodesia. The book he is reading is 'Butler's Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other Saints'.

Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. inspecting a van with rifles perched against the wheel in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. at the rear of St. Theresa's Friary in Livingstone. The original caption reads: ‘In 1910 he left Ireland to help out in Hermiston, Oregon in the United States. Casimir began work and soon he had built a small church. Before he left Hermiston, Casimir built three mission churches. Casimir embarked on a new adventure, going to Cape Town, helping to establish a Capuchin presence there and then Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) where the Irish Capuchin Province had established a new mission. The Livingstone government had set aside a plot for a Catholic church and house. Casimir hired a contractor to build a house: ever since known as “217” (PO Box). Casimir was fifty-five years old when he arrived and was not in good health’.

The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church and Friary, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.

Photographic print of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at Loanja mission station.

Mission huts at Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

The altar and sanctuary of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. The altar was constructed by the father of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.