- IE CA AMI/1/10/1/4/1
- Part
- c.1948
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of SS 'Stratheden', a British ocean liner, docked at the Port of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of SS 'Stratheden', a British ocean liner, docked at the Port of Cape Town, South Africa.
South African Mission Photographs of Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A small collection of prints relating to the South African mission assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. The file includes:
• The exterior of St. Theresa’s School in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, South Africa. The annotation reads: ‘This part was built in 1933. Two moveable partitions made it one large room for Mass (3 classrooms). The third room (back part) added to the original 2 classrooms’.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the occasion of his visitation to South Africa in 1957. The friars include Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Curran OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap.
• The exterior of Parow Church and Presbytery in Cape Town.
• Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) and Fr. Bernard Cronin OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. and Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.
Ships docked at the Port of Cape Town
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An image taken from on board the 'Dominion Monarch' docked in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. The ship in the distance is either the RMMV 'Stirling Castle' or her identical sister ship the RMMV 'Athlone Castle', British passenger liners built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast) for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town.
Schools and Orphanages in Parow, Cape Town
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
External views of the orphanage, the primary and secondary schools and the ‘European School’ in Parow, Cape Town.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of children probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of children probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of children probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A view of Sancta Maria mission station at Lukulu in Northern Rhodesia.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A view of a replica Irish Round Tower located in the Philippi area of the Flats region near Cape Town in South Africa. The tower (formally known as St. Patrick’s Shrine) was built on the slopes of Table Mountain which overlooks the city of Cape Town. The tower was constructed by Fr. James Kelly, an Irish Catholic missionary. The tower was a noted landmark in the Cape Flats district and acted as a focal point for annual St. Patrick’s Day’s festivities for Cape Town’s Irish community with the spire bedecked with national colours. The tower was demolished in 1978.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A religious sister (probably an Irish-born Sister of the Holy Cross) at a school (or orphanage) in Cape Province, South Africa.