Capuchin friars (including Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.) with local inhabitants at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
(Left to right) Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. at the mission station in Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip, South West Africa ( now Namibia).
Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. at a Chapter meeting in St. Dominic’s, Lusaka, Zambia.
a group of Capuchin friars in Zambia. The group includes Br. Dominic O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Sylvius McCarthy OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. and Fr. Terence Barry OFM Cap.
A copy of an ‘experimental newsletter’ published by the Capuchin Vice-Province of Southern Africa. The publication includes news of the friars’ travels, forthcoming Franciscan events, the EACC Formation House and the publication of an EACC Journal, Capuchin statistics in Africa, the sale of a field in Athlone parish, the deeds for properties held by the Capuchins in South Africa, medical insurance for the friars, and SMA news.
Reports on parishes administered by the Irish Capuchins in Cape Province, South Africa. The reports were submitted by the Irish Provincial Minster to the Capuchin General Curia. They contain information in respect of Langa, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia, Bridgetown, and Parow. Information is given under the following headings: • Year of foundation • Personnel • Apostolates attached to parish • Non-Parochial Apostolates (missions, retreats, diocesan functions) • Population (numbers of Catholics, numbers of prospective converts and numbers of marriages) • Care of other institutions • Other religious working in parishes
Scale: 5 miles to 1 inch Map of the Cape Province, South Africa, by the Roads Branch, Cape Provincial Administration. With mileage table in both Afrikaans and English. Manuscript additions to the map (in pencil) roughly indicate the location of the Irish Capuchin churches in the Cape Province: Langa, Athlone, Parow, the Welcome Estate and Matroosfontein. A distinction is made between locations with both churches and mission schools and areas where only a school is present. A manuscript stamp indicates that the map was sent to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, St. Bonaventure’s Friary, Cork.
