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An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. and a religious sister with a First Communion group in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of a local football team in Cape Town, South Africa.

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

An image of Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside St. Mary of the Angels Church, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

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’.

Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (right) on board a ship, probably en-route to South Africa.

An image of Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. with parishioners in Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with parishioners outside a church in Cape Town, South Africa.