Newsletter compiled by Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap. containing information on the Capuchin Vice-Province in South Africa. Fr. Sean notes that ‘Izindaba’ is the Zulu word for news. Zulu is the language ‘spoken by the majority of the people in our southern part of Africa’.
Bulletin of the Capuchin Vice-Province of Southern Africa (July 1992, No. 1). The bulletin includes an introduction by Fr. Noel Winston OFM Cap., Vice-Provincial Minister, and a note on the celebration of Fr. Wilfred Aherne’s Golden Jubilee in Cape Town on 16 July 1992.
Booklet published to mark the diamond jubilee of the building of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Parow Parish, Cape Province, South Africa. The booklet contains an introduction by Fr. Macartan Hyland OFM Cap., parish priest.
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.
Report on the Conference of Ordinaries of Northern Rhodesia held in Lusaka in April 1945. The attendees included Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls, and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. For the most part, the conference dealt with issues related to the provision of Catholic education in the country.
Postcard print of the community of Holy Cross Sisters in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘The Parow Community / x marks an Irish Sister – Ita O’Hanlon’.
An external view of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Langa, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Langa, 1982’.
Professions at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone Parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The file includes caption information for some of the photographs compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Includes images of Fr. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap., Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. and two novices from Holy Trinity Parish, Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip.
A manuscript map showing the locations of stations and churches founded by Christian (mainly Protestant) denominations in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). A reference key gives the dates of arrival of the various congregations and groups in the country. The map is extant on p. 11 in the volume.