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.
Copybook containing notes by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, for his visitation to the Capuchin missions in Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa. The volume includes notes re meetings with regular superiors, individual friars, horariums, local customs, school and church constructions, baptisms, and other aspects of general missionary work.
Letters from Bishop Francis Henneman SAC (1882-1951), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope, Western District, later Vicar Apostolic of Cape Town, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers. The letters refer to requests for the Irish Capuchins to take over missionary outstations including those at Matroosfontein and in the Welcome Estate.
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.
Circular from the Apostolic Delegate, Pretoria (the Most Rev. Martin Lucas SVD), to Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, outlining the relevant canon regulations and formalities involved in the alienation of ecclesiastical goods including property.
Accounts, publicity material (catalogue) and correspondence relating to the Foreign Missionary Exhibition held at 86 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 17-25 June 1932. The official catalogue includes a list of items displayed by the friars relating to their missionary work in Africa and a photographic print of the Capuchin exhibition stand. The file also includes display cards and captions for the artefacts exhibited by the Capuchins at the event. The caption cards read as follows: Witch Doctor’s Charms Native Arrow Royal Barge (Nalikwanda) / Paramount Chief and Four Paddlers Native Dance Mask Native Drum Native Whip / (Made from the hide of the hippopotamus) Model of Victoria Falls Capuchin Mission Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia A Model of a Mission Compound Drawings and Carving by Children / South Africa Carving in Ivory / Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia Native Hut used as church at first out-station Model of Motor Lorry / made with a penknife by one of the natives Model of Hospital / lent by Sodality of St. Peter Claver, 49 North Great George’s Street, Dublin
