Letter from Sr. Maria Angela, a Capuchin Poor Clare, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking copies of the 'Ordo' for the Divine Office. She wrote: ‘Now we are in need since the war began. We have no more connection with our Home Convent and received no more orders from there like we received all the years’. Reference is made in the letter to the kindness shown to the sisters by Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.
Letter from Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., General Minister, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of Broken Hill in the Irish Capuchin mission territory in Northern Rhodesia.
Letter from Fr. Basil Cryan OFM Cap. (1898-1968), Capuchin Foreign Missions, Church Street, Dublin, to Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, re arrangements for the payment of monies into the mission account.
Letter from Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (1898-1983) to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the progress of building work in Northern Rhodesia. He writes: ‘These buildings of course will be of native constructions, up to the time that the Fathers will have enough bricks made to build good buildings’.
Letter from Bishop Francis Costantin Mazzieri OFM Conv., Ndola, Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Rhodesia, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking an assistant for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., education secretary for the Vicariates of Northern Rhodesia.
A study on Northern Rhodesia compiled by Rev. E. Hoch. The text focuses on the northern part of the country inhabited by the Babemba and other tribes. The notes are largely based on 'Rhodesia and Nyasaland' by W.V. Brelsford and 'A study of the Babemba and neighbouring tribes' by Fr. Etienne OBE. The text includes a ‘tribal map of Northern Rhodesia’ attached to the back cover.
Cutting from an article by Terence O’Hanlon in the 'Sunday Independent' referring to Fr. James O’Mahony’s recent publication, 'African Adventure' (1936), which covers the pioneering missionary work of the Irish Capuchins in Northern Rhodesia. The article includes photographic prints of Fr. James and the church in Parow parish, Cape Province, South Africa. See CA AMI/1/8/1.
An image of a woman kissing the Blarney Stone. Blarney Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house located in County Cork. According to legend, kissing the stone (which is built into the battlements of the castle) bestows upon the person the gift of eloquence, flattery, and persuasiveness. Though earlier fortifications were built on the site, the current castle structure was constructed in 1446 by the MacCarthys of Muskerry, a branch of the Kings of Desmond.
A large group outside Holy Cross Secondary School in Malengwa. The group includes front: Fr. Frederick McConvery OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap. Fr. Sylvius McCarthy OFM Cap. (1931-2011), Kenneth Kaunda, Betty Kaunda, Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. Second row: Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap., Fr. John Grace OFM Cap., Br. Maurice Buckley OFM Cap., Br. Eugene Mooney OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap. Back row: Fr. Donatus McNamara and Fr. Terence Barry OFM Cap.