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Photographic prints assembled by Br. Maurice Buckley OFM Cap. (1918-2003) relating to missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). The prints have not been annotated but include images of Br. Maurice with religious sisters, with local children, crossing the Zambezi River and various churches and religious foundations.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. relating to his missionary work in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated:
Fr. Jude with Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. in Cape Town on 22 Nov. 1966.
The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone, in 1966.
Fr. Jude with Holy Cross Sisters at a retreat in Malengwa, Mongu, in 1968.
Fr. Jude at the ordination of Fr. Damien Loughrey OFM Cap., missionary friar, in Dublin in 1986.
The interior and exterior of Mangango Mission Hospital.
The Most Rev. Raymond Mpezele, Bishop of Livingstone, at the Convent of the Poor Clares in Lusaka in c.2000.
Fr. Peter Rodgers OFM Cap. with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. and other friars in Zambia in 2002.
Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna and Fr. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. at a celebration in St. Conrad’s Friary, Lusaka, marking seventy-five years of the Capuchins in Zambia in 2006.
Fr. John Corriveau OFM Cap., Minister General, with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. and Fr. Daniel Gomez OFM Cap. at Padre Pio House in Lusaka in 2006.
Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. attending a meeting of East African Capuchin Conference (EACC) in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2006. The group includes friars from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. relating to his missionary work in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated:
Fr. Michael with local children at Langa, Cape Town, South Africa on 23 Nov. 1966.
Fr. Michael celebrating mass at a temporary church in the bushland around Kashembe on 3 Apr. 1970.
Fr. Michael at Malengwa, Mongu, Zambia.
Fr. Michael with local children in Livingstone in 1967.
Fr. Michael with Litunga Mwanawina, Paramount Chief, in Limulunga in Mar. 1968. The group also includes Fr. Macartan Hyland OFM Cap., Fr. Connor Brady OFM Cap. (1923-1993) and two Christian Brothers.
The blessing of the church at Namboata on 24 Sept. 1972.
Fr. Michael with Fr. Jim Cleary OFM Cap. at Santa Ines Mission in California on 23 Aug. 1987.

Photographic prints of a visit by the Most Rev. Adrian Mung’andu, Bishop of Livingstone, to a Capuchin mission in Zambia. The images show the bishop celebrating Mass, blessing a building and meeting locally-born religious sisters and the local community.

Notes by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. re clothing and supplies which are needed for missionary work in Northern Rhodesia. The file includes several lists outlining the requirements. Fr. Killian notes that Monsignor Bruno Wolnick SJ ‘says we can get help for all of the above articles from the “Peter Claver Society”. Dublin Address: 49 North Great George’s Street’.

Letters from Archbishops Arthur Hinsley, Antonio Riberi, David Mathew and James Robert Knox, successive Apostolic Delegates in Mombasa, Kenya, to Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The letters refer to the work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Archbishop David Mathew also refers to his hope that the Irish Capuchins may be prevailed upon to take charge of the College of St. Louis in the Seychelles (23 Apr. 1947). Archbishop Knox expresses his hope that an assistant will be appointed for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. to assist in his work with the Conference of Northern Rhodesian Bishops (24 May 1957).

Letters to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Vicar Apostolic of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia. The correspondents include Fr. Agatangelo de Langasco OFM Cap., Commissionary General, and Fr. Cuthbert of Chicago OFM Cap., Vice-Secretary General of the Capuchin Missions. The file includes questionnaires, biographies and other documentation (in Latin) re the three candidates: Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, and Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. Definitor.

Letters from the Most Rev. Adrian Mung'andu and the Most Rev. Raymond Mpezele, successive Bishops of Livingstone, to Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap. and Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. re the Franciscan House of Studies in Livingstone, concerns re the Capuchin commitment to ongoing pastoral work in the diocese, and the appointment of Fr. Philip Connor OFM Cap. as Episcopal Vicar in the diocese.

Photographic prints of Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap. undertaking a trip to Chobe National Park in Botswana. The prints have been placed in sleeves in a folder which is annotated: ‘A Day in Chobe / April 1983’. The prints mostly show wild animals and river crossings associated with the trip.

Prints showing Capuchin friars at the Zambian Special Chapter held in Lusaka in December 1983. Manuscript annotation on the reverse of the black and white print identifies the participants including Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap., Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. and Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap.