An external view of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Parow, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Church of the Immaculate Conception, Parow, Cape Town’.
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’.
An external view of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Langa, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Langa, 1982’.
Missionary Bulletin leaflet, No. 11 (Oct. 1979). The bulletin notes the Golden Jubilee of the arrival (4 Feb. 1929) of the Irish Capuchins in Cape Town and gives a brief history of landmarks in the South African mission
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’.
Bulletin of the Capuchin Vice-Province of Southern Africa (July 1992, No. 1). The bulletin includes an introduction by Fr. Noel Winston OFM Cap., Vice-Provincial Minister, and a note on the celebration of Fr. Wilfred Aherne’s Golden Jubilee in Cape Town on 16 July 1992.
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.
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.
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’.