A group of Capuchin friars at an airstrip in Mongu in Western Zambia. The group includes the Cork-born friars, standing, third from the right, Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008), and, standing at left, Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006). The Wicklow-born Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (1917-2009) is seated, second on the right. The caption to the print identifies the aircraft in the background as a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver operated by Zambia Airways.
(Left) Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Sr. Angela Mary, Sr. Patrick and Sr. Constance at the mission station in Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip, South West Africa (now Namibia).
(Left) Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. and (right) Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. with a statue of Our Lady of Fatima at Victoria Falls in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia. The original caption reads ‘Fr. Capistran Singleton opened a trade school in Sichili, worked in carpentry and brick-laying in Zambia from 1943-78. He was thirty-five years in Sichili. He built Sesheke Church and Friary and the Mongu Teacher Training College (TCC) in Malengwa’.
Detail of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. giving his blessing to the laity following his consecration as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.