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Photographic prints of religious sisters at the Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. The images show the sisters providing food and medical care to local villagers.

Prints showing Capuchin friars (both Irish-born and local brothers) and various churches in Zambia. Many of the prints have been annotated on the reverse:
The perpetual profession of Br. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. in Livingstone, 3 Oct. 1999.
Br. Charles Chishimba OFM Cap. with Fr. Silvester Flynn OFM Cap. in Assisi House, Lusaka, 10 Dec. 1999.
Retreat group at Assisi House, Lusaka on 10 Dec. 1999. The group includes Fr. Silvester Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Damien Loughrey OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap.
Altar servers in Malengwa in 2000.
Building work on the extension to St. Conrad’s Friary, Lusaka in 2000. The extension was completed in May 2001.
Friars at a retreat given by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. in St. Kizito, Monze, Zambia, in 2001.
Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. with Fr. Godfrey Sinvula OFM Cap. at a silver jubilee celebration in Mongu in Apr. 2003.
Friars at a retreat in St. Kizito, Monze, Zambia in April 2005.
Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. at Mangango in 2005.
Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. at a Corpus Christi Procession in Chinyingi in 2004.
Sunset over the Zambezi River in Chinyingi in 2004.
Bridge in the mist over Zambezi at Chinyingi in 2004. This footbridge was built by Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap.
Building a new church at Makanga village, Chinyingi, in 2004.
Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. and Sr. Immaculata ‘stuck in the mud just after the Sitaka turn-off heading towards Chinyingi during the rainy season in 2004’.
The church at Chinyingi.
A canoe crossing the Zambezi River at Senanga.
Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly at Kaoma.
The Capuchin Friary in Mahenge, Tanzania.
Br. Ephrem Onyanga OFM Cap. (Kenya), Br. Dominic Chanda OFM Cap. (Zambia), Br. Francis Chilufya OFM Cap. (Zambia) and Br. Deogratias Mwageni OFM Cap. (Tanzania).
Br. Michael and Br. Mishek at St. Bonaventure’s College, Lusaka, in Zambia, in 2006.
Br. Lawrence Katongo OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., and Br. Dominic Sanou OFM Cap. at Morogoro, Tanzania, on 29 Oct. 2005.
Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. and Br. Raphael Mwito OFM Cap. at Mangango.
Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap. at the site of the proposed St. Joseph’s Home in Livingstone.
Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Rodgers OFM Cap. and Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. in Lusaka on 25 Aug. 2002.
Fr. Daniel and Br. John (a newly-professed Zambian friar) at Mangango mission in April 2001.
Br. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. (ordained a priest in 2001).
Friars of the Zambian Vice-Province with Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. in Lusaka.
Fr. Beatus Kinyaiya OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Tanzanian Capuchin Province.
Zambian Vice-Province Retreat Group at St. Kizito, Monze, Apr. 2002. The group includes Br. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap.
Fr. James Connolly with Angolan refugee children in the Catholic church at Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement in the Kaoma district, Zambia, in Apr. 2001.

Report on the Livingstone Mission by Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006) for the Irish Capuchin Provincial Chapter. The report is divided into the following sections:

1. Apostolate
2. Education
   (a) Primary schools
   (b) Secondary schools
3. Medical
4. Social work
5. Life of the friars
6. Finance
7. Personnel
8. Katima Mulilo Mission
9. The future
10. Annual statistics for the Diocese of Livingstone
11. Personnel list: Diocese of Livingstone

Statistics compiled by the Regular Superior regarding the Irish Capuchin missions in South Africa and Northern Rhodesia. The statistical forms were compiled for the Capuchin General Curia. The forms include information in respect of the numbers of friars ministering at mission stations, the local populace (both European and indigenous), the numbers of Catholics and non-Catholics, the numbers of mission schools, hospitals and orphanages founded, and the numbers of baptisms and communions. The file includes a list of Irish Capuchins resident at mission stations in both Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa in June 1947 and in June 1952.

Directory of the Diocese of Livingstone (Most Rev. Adrian Mung’andu, Bishop) noting the number of parishes, priests, missionaries, and communicants.

Letters from Fr. Callistus Lopinot OFM Cap. (1876-1966), a Capuchin friar from Geispolsheim, Germany, Capuchin General Curia, Vice-Secretary of the Missions, to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Regular Superior for the Irish mission in Northern Rhodesia.

Draft and copy letters of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. relating to the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. The file includes copy letters to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., General Definitor, and Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap., and a letter from Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. On 21 May 1948, Fr. James wrote ‘We feel that there is great future for the Irish Province in South Africa where the Irish Capuchins were the first, and still stand alone, in their mission to pure natives in the Langa Compound’.

A copy of 'Zambia Capuchin News' (Vol. 2, Nos. 1-6), a publication edited by Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Malengwa. The principal sections are: Professions at Kasita; a meeting of Capuchin Formators of East Africa; a course for Capuchin Formators; Br. Malachy Breslin OFM Cap.; the visit of the Mission Secretary; the Capuchin Heritage Programme.

Cuttings from the 'Irish Catholic' of reports by Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. on the work of the late Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Sioma Mission, founded in 1953, and at the Senanga Mission, located on the banks of the Zambezi River.