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.
Calendar of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and South Africa from 1929-38 giving details of where each friar was stationed and the time spent at each mission station. Includes a clipping of an article on the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, taken from 'The Father Mathew Record'. The extract is extant on pp 42-5 in the volume compiled Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989).
Copy confirmation by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, of the elections of Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. as regular superior, and Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. and Fr. Athanasius (Noel) Winston OFM Cap. as councillors of the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa.
Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. and Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap. at the ceremony to canonize Fr. Crispin of Viterbo OSFC (1668-1750) at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican.
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.
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
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.
