Souvenir booklet for the 50th anniversary of St. Theresa’s Church, Welcome Estate, Cape Province, South Africa. The booklet includes a year-by-year history of the parish church (and adjoining school) and photographic prints of various Capuchin friars who served as parish priests including Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap., Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap. (1931-1984), and Fr. Wilfrid Aherne OFM Cap. (1923-2004).
Cutting from 'The Cape Argus', 2 July 1932, referring to the newly-built Redemptorist Retreat House at Heathfield in Cape Town, South Africa. A manuscript annotation reads: ‘Cost £4,000’.
Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet Architectural front and back elevations and sections of the proposed Catholic priests’ residence in Athlone parish, Cape Town. With drawings of the ground and first floor plans. The plan was prepared by G. Muller, Cape Town.
A view of ‘Brookside’ on Lansdowne Road in Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa. The print shows a building used as a residence by the Irish Capuchin friars.
An internal view of the Catholic Church at Tyger Valley, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Church at Tyger Valley / Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.’.
Homily for Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989). He died in Cape Town, South Africa, on 10 August 1989. The homily was preached in the Welcome Estate Church by Fr. Wilfred Aherne OFM Cap. It was noted that Fr. Albeus ‘spent almost thirty years a missionary in Zambia and the past eighteen years ministering in the Capuchin parishes of the Cape Town Archdiocese. His brother Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. died in 1968, also in Cape Town’.
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’.
Report by the Regular Superior on the verbal process at the canonical visitation of the parish of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, South Africa. Reference is made to the necessity of keeping the Order and mission accounts separate and to the sum of £825 refunded to the Bishop of Cape Town ‘in full settlement of money expended by the Vicariate in the Welcome Estate’.
