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The Capuchins in Cape Town
IE CA AMI/1/2/2 · Pièce · c.1965
Fait partie de Irish Capuchin Archives

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’.

IE CA AMI/1/9/2 · Pièce · 19 Jan. 1935
Fait partie de Irish Capuchin Archives

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Sectional plan and front-view elevation of the proposed Church of the Immaculate Conception in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. The plan is initialed ‘GA’ and is dated 19 January 1935.

On Board the 'Dominion Monarch'
IE CA AMI/1/10/1/1/13 · Partie · 1947
Fait partie de Irish Capuchin Archives

An image captioned 'Dominion Monarch / 1947'. The photograph shows a line-crossing ceremony on the ship, an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Built in England between 1937 and 1939, the 'Dominion Monarch' was a passenger liner which regularly operated services between Britain and ports in the southern hemisphere (particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).