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A group of Capuchin friars at an airstrip in Mongu in Western Zambia. The group includes the Cork-born friars, standing, third from the right, Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008), and, standing at left, Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006). The Wicklow-born Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (1917-2009) is seated, second on the right. The caption to the print identifies the aircraft in the background as a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver operated by Zambia Airways.

The visit of Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, to Mangango.

President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke in Zambia.

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

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Damian Loughrey OFM Cap. (holding a lion cub) and Mrs Flexmore at Sioma in Zambia.

The exterior of Our Lady of the Angels Church, Livingstone, Zambia.

The exterior of Sihole Church, Kalabo, Zambia.

The grave plaque of Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. (d. 12 July 1944), the first superior of St. Patrick’s Mission, Kalabo, Sihole, Zambia.

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’.

Publication by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The booklet was published by M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin.