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An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. and a religious sister with a First Communion group in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.

Cutting of an article from 'The Southern Cross', 16 Nov. 1938, lamenting the recent departure of Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. for California. The article reads: ‘Fr. Alban arrived in Cape Town some nine years ago and took over what was then a struggling, obscure little mission, know as St. Raphael’s, Athlone, Cape Flats, and now, on his departure, we find a handsome and commodious church … [and] a dignified and roomy presbytery’.

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.

Two Irish Capuchin missionaries (Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the right, and possibly Fr. Serpahin Nesdale OFM Cap.) on the banks of the Zambezi River, Northern Rhodesia.

A two-ton Ford truck in Livingstone. The original caption indicates that this truck was for use in the Sioma Mission.

Capuchin Friars in Livingstone on the occasion of the silver jubilee of Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. The group includes Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., and Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap.

A truck on a pontoon at the Watopa ferry crossing in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Conor Brady OFM Cap. (1923-1993) and Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. at the grave of Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. in Sihole.

Photographic print of a postcard from Kenneth Kaunda (later President of Zambia) to Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea. The postcard was written during Kaunda’s visit to Rome and asks for ‘divine guidance … [during] our present crisis’.

Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in Livingstone.