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The exterior of St. Theresa’s Friary in Livingstone as viewed from the adjoining church.

The exterior of St. Theresa’s School, Welcome Estate, Cape Town, South Africa. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘This part was built in 1933. Two moveable partitions made it one large room for Mass (3 classrooms). The third room (back part) added to the original 2 classrooms’.

An image of the students and staff of St. Theresa's Primary School, Welcome Estate, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. and the Zambian National Judo team with President Kenneth Kaunda following a state reception in Lusaka

A view of Table Mountain as seen from the bell tower of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

A teacher with a large group of children at Sichili mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

Building a temporary church at the Mankoya mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.

Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.

The exterior of the Church in Sesheke, Zambia (built by Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. in 1967).