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Copy confirmation by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, of the elections of Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. as regular superior, and Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. and Fr. Athanasius (Noel) Winston OFM Cap. as councillors of the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa.

Scale: 5 miles to 1 inch
Map of the Cape Province, South Africa, by the Roads Branch, Cape Provincial Administration. With mileage table in both Afrikaans and English. Manuscript additions to the map (in pencil) roughly indicate the location of the Irish Capuchin churches in the Cape Province: Langa, Athlone, Parow, the Welcome Estate and Matroosfontein. A distinction is made between locations with both churches and mission schools and areas where only a school is present. A manuscript stamp indicates that the map was sent to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, St. Bonaventure’s Friary, Cork.

Reports on parishes administered by the Irish Capuchins in Cape Province, South Africa. The reports were submitted by the Irish Provincial Minster to the Capuchin General Curia. They contain information in respect of Langa, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia, Bridgetown, and Parow. Information is given under the following headings:
• Year of foundation
• Personnel
• Apostolates attached to parish
• Non-Parochial Apostolates (missions, retreats, diocesan functions)
• Population (numbers of Catholics, numbers of prospective converts and numbers of marriages)
• Care of other institutions
• Other religious working in parishes

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.

Photographic prints of Capuchin friars at a meeting in Cape Town. The print wallet suggests that the images were taken in January 1989 and were addressed to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap. Includes some images of receptions which were attended by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. The file also includes negative sheets for the prints.

A group photograph of Capuchin friars in Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘A “Caps” get-together in the Cape / Dec. 11, 1984’.