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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’.

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

1. Parish of Athlone
2. Station at Welcome Estate
3. Location at Langa
   B. Friary of the Immaculate Conception, Parow
4. Parish at Parow
5. Station at Matroosfontein
   Livingstone Vicariate (Northern Rhodesia)
   A. Livingstone
6. Township: St. Theresa’s Pro-Cathedral
7. District of Maramba: Christ the King Mission
   B. Caprivi Strip
8. Katima Mulilo: Holy Family Mission
   Barotseland Protectorate (Northern Rhodesia)
9. Sichili: St. Fidelis Mission
10. Sioma: St. Anthony Mission
11. Malengwa: St. Francis of Assisi Mission
12. Lukulu: Sancta Maria Mission
13. Mangango: St. Joseph Mission
14. Sihole: St. Patrick Mission
15. Balovale Boma: Our Lady of Fatima
16. 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.

Report by Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. (1929-2018), Regular Superior, on the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Didacus notes that ‘thirteen priests and two brothers are responsible for the twenty thousand Catholics in the Cape Town Archdiocese’. The report is divided into the following sections:
• Apostolate
• Vocations
• Finance
• Present debts of the Parish
• Life of the friars
• Needs

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.

Letter from Fr. Basil Cryan OFM Cap. (1898-1968), Capuchin Foreign Missions, Church Street, Dublin, to Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, re arrangements for the payment of monies into the mission account.

A funding proposal from the Damietta Initiative, Capuchin Franciscan Peace Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, for a project promoting non-violence ‘based on the Franciscan charism of “fraternity and minority”’.

Offprint of an article by Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. on the history of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa titled ‘The Irish Capuchins in Cape Town and Zambia / from virgin mission territory to diocese’. The article was printed in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975). Ink stamped on first page: ‘Vocations’ Office, Capuchin College, Rochestown, County Cork’.

The sub-title reads: ‘A look, in pictures and words, at the lives of everyday people in one of the world’s most complex lands’. Published by Avroy Shlain Cosmetics Ltd. Includes printed insert from Roger Ballard-Tremeer, South African Embassy, London.

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.