Booklet published to mark the diamond jubilee of the building of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa. The booklet includes brief notes re the history of the Irish Capuchin presence in Athlone, copy photographic prints, and a list of parish priests from 1933 to 1993.
A copy of an ‘experimental newsletter’ published by the Capuchin Vice-Province of Southern Africa. The publication includes news of the friars’ travels, forthcoming Franciscan events, the EACC Formation House and the publication of an EACC Journal, Capuchin statistics in Africa, the sale of a field in Athlone parish, the deeds for properties held by the Capuchins in South Africa, medical insurance for the friars, and SMA news.
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’.
Cutting from the 'Cape Times' of a report on the drowning of Fr. Frederick McConvery OFM Cap. (d. 28 Nov. 1968). Fr. McConvery of Parow Church died whilst swimming at Hermanus in the company of Fr. Patrick Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Leo McAuliffe OFM Cap. and Br. Daniel Duffy OFM Cap.
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.
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.
Report by Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, on missionary work in the Cape Province, South Africa. The report asses the work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Parow parish (Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.); Matroosfontein (Fr. Marcellus O’Carroll OFM Cap.); Athlone (Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. 1900-1947); the Welcome Estate (Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., 1913-1967); Langa (Fr. Christopher Crowley 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’.