Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with Parishioners, Cape Town
- IE CA AMI/1/10/2/8/30
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- c.1955
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with parishioners outside a church in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with Parishioners, Cape Town
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with parishioners outside a church in Cape Town, South Africa.
Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. with Parishioners, Cape Town
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. with parishioners in Cape Town, South Africa.
Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. on a ship
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (right) on board a ship, probably en-route to South Africa.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. at Athlone Church, Cape Town
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside St. Mary of the Angels Church, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Sodality Members
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. with female members of the ‘Children of Mary Sodality’ in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.
Foreign Missions’ Account Book
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Ledger of loans and monies supplied to the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa compiled by Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary. The ledger includes records of money supplied to Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. and Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. to build parish churches in Athlone and Parow, Cape Town, in March 1933. £1,700 was given to Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. to build a friary (14 June 1937), and £1,000 was given to Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. for Livingstone Church in Northern Rhodesia. The accounts also include monies derived from the Seraphic Mass Association (SMA) from Aug. 1931-Jan. 1935. The accounts are signed are by Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. Provincial Minister, 10 Aug. 1937.
O’Callaghan, Kieran, 1893-1967, Capuchin priest
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of a local football team in Cape Town, South Africa.
First Communion Group, Langa, Cape Town
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. and a religious sister with a First Communion group in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.