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Report on the prospects of the South African mission by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., St. Mary’s, Cape Town for Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The report refers to a meeting with Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley, Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope, to discuss the areas (Athlone and Parow) which have been offered to the Irish Capuchins. A description of both districts and their populations is given. The financing of the proposed mission is also referred to. The report notes that ‘there is a well-disposed Catholic in Athlone, a Mr. Murphy, who came to the Cape during the Boer War, and settled here’. The report also affirms that ‘the people seem to want us badly in Athlone – there certainly is a hunger for a priest there’.

Return of mission personnel in Northern Rhodesia (St. Therese) Livingstone; Sancta Maria (Lukulu, Mongu); St. Fidelis (Sichili); St. Joseph (Mankoya) and in Cape Town, Church of the Immaculate Conception (Parow parish); St. Mary of the Angels (Athlone parish).

An external view of St. Anthony’s Church, Langa, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘St. Anthony’s, Langa, Table Mountain in background’.

Two external views of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Our first Capuchin Church in Cape Town / St. Mary of the Angels’.

A view of building work on the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘The unfinished school and chapel at Athlone, Cape Flats’.

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’.

Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.