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’.
No scale given Hand-drawn map of Irish Capuchin missions in the suburbs around Cape Town, South Africa. The map shows the locations of Claremont, Parow, and Athlone in addition to other major settlements around the Cape Flats and on the Cape Peninsula. The map has been extensively annotated. It reads: ‘The purely white parishes would be Sea Point, Rondebosch, Mowbray, Woodstock (mostly so). The other places have a quota of whites, mostly coloured though. My ambition is to get ourselves quartered in the part marked in heavy read. … All the coloured are moving towards the Flats especially along the main road towards Bellville’.
Newsletter compiled by Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap. containing information on the Capuchin Vice-Province in South Africa. Fr. Sean notes that ‘Izindaba’ is the Zulu word for news. Zulu is the language ‘spoken by the majority of the people in our southern part of Africa’.
Cutting from an article by Terence O’Hanlon in the 'Sunday Independent' referring to Fr. James O’Mahony’s recent publication, 'African Adventure' (1936), which covers the pioneering missionary work of the Irish Capuchins in Northern Rhodesia. The article includes photographic prints of Fr. James and the church in Parow parish, Cape Province, South Africa. See CA AMI/1/8/1.
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.
Letter from Sr. Maria Angela, a Capuchin Poor Clare, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking copies of the 'Ordo' for the Divine Office. She wrote: ‘Now we are in need since the war began. We have no more connection with our Home Convent and received no more orders from there like we received all the years’. Reference is made in the letter to the kindness shown to the sisters by Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.
Letter from Peter Hill, The Presbytery, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., enclosing a cheque for £10 for the ‘foreign missionary work of your Order’.
Circular letter to friars from Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. regarding a forthcoming sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions. With an enclosure re the contributions from the Seraphic Mass Association (SMA) towards the welfare of the African missions (1973-6).
Letter to Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. from Dichmont & Dichmont, attorneys, 55 St. George’s Street, Cape Town, South Africa, re a certificate for payment for the transfer of Capuchin property to the municipality of the city Cape Town.
Letter from Vincent Boulle, Linda Road, Claremont, Cape Province, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the establishment of a Third Order Sodality in the Cape Province, South Africa. Reference is made to receptions into the Third Order made by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
