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.
A list of Capuchin friars attached to the Cape Town mission, South Africa. The list notes the friars ministering in Athlone, Belgravia, Bridgetown, Langa, Parow, Tyger Valley and the Welcome Estate.
A list of Capuchin friars in Cape Province, South Africa, and in the Diocese of Livingstone, Zambia. The directory gives the locations, missions, and parishes to which the friars are attached.
Draft report by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the canonical visitation of the Irish Capuchin missions in the Cape Province, South Africa, and in the Livingstone Vicariate, Northern Rhodesia. The report is divided into the following sections: Mission in the Cape Province (South Africa) A. St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone
Parish of Athlone
Station at Welcome Estate
Location at Langa B. Friary of the Immaculate Conception, Parow
Parish at Parow
Station at Matroosfontein Livingstone Vicariate (Northern Rhodesia) A. Livingstone
Township: St. Theresa’s Pro-Cathedral
District of Maramba: Christ the King Mission B. Caprivi Strip
Katima Mulilo: Holy Family Mission Barotseland Protectorate (Northern Rhodesia)
Sichili: St. Fidelis Mission
Sioma: St. Anthony Mission
Malengwa: St. Francis of Assisi Mission
Lukulu: Sancta Maria Mission
Mangango: St. Joseph Mission
Sihole: St. Patrick Mission
Balovale Boma: Our Lady of Fatima
Chinyingi: Sacred Heart Mission Reference is made to the history of the various mission stations, the friars staffing the stations, and the apostolic activity undertaken by the Capuchins.
A view of the first Dutch Reformed Mission Church in the Cape Flats region of Cape Town in South Africa. The print is annotated: ‘The recently completed church in Lawrence Road, Athlone. It has seating accommodation for about 500 people’. Manuscript annotation reads: ‘This is for non-Europeans. The whites have another. Built [in] two months’.
Cutting of an article from 'The Southern Cross', 16 Nov. 1938, lamenting the recent departure of Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. for California. The article reads: ‘Fr. Alban arrived in Cape Town some nine years ago and took over what was then a struggling, obscure little mission, know as St. Raphael’s, Athlone, Cape Flats, and now, on his departure, we find a handsome and commodious church … [and] a dignified and roomy presbytery’.
Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. (1929-2018) at Regina Coeli Catholic Church in Cape Town, South Africa. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘Regina Coeli Church, Belgravia, Athlone, Cape Town. Fr. Didacus with a member of the Third Order – Mr. Richardson’.
A list of Irish Capuchin friars who worked as missionaries in Africa from January 1929 to c.1985. The list was compiled for research purposes by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. The information is listed under name, year of arrival, details of posting (whether to Northern Rhodesia/Zambia or to South Africa) and remarks. Information is also supplied in respect of whether the friar in question is deceased. The list notes that Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. travelled to Cape Town in January 1929 on a tour of inspection of potential mission territories.
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’.