Booklet by Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. providing a brief history of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. The publication is divided into the following sections: A seed is sown; Key points in the Irish Capuchin Mission to South Africa; Irish Capuchin Mission in the Cape Flats; List of Capuchins on Missionary Work in Cape Town, March 1980; Growth and development of Missionary Work in Zambia; Mission stations in the Diocese of Livingstone; List of Capuchins involved in missionary work in the Diocese of Livingstone.
Accounts, publicity material (catalogue) and correspondence relating to the Foreign Missionary Exhibition held at 86 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 17-25 June 1932. The official catalogue includes a list of items displayed by the friars relating to their missionary work in Africa and a photographic print of the Capuchin exhibition stand. The file also includes display cards and captions for the artefacts exhibited by the Capuchins at the event. The caption cards read as follows: Witch Doctor’s Charms Native Arrow Royal Barge (Nalikwanda) / Paramount Chief and Four Paddlers Native Dance Mask Native Drum Native Whip / (Made from the hide of the hippopotamus) Model of Victoria Falls Capuchin Mission Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia A Model of a Mission Compound Drawings and Carving by Children / South Africa Carving in Ivory / Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia Native Hut used as church at first out-station Model of Motor Lorry / made with a penknife by one of the natives Model of Hospital / lent by Sodality of St. Peter Claver, 49 North Great George’s Street, Dublin