Minutes of the first General Mission Conference held at the Sichili Mission Station, Northern Rhodesia. The meeting was convened by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic. The minutes include decrees in relation to the Horarium, rules and observance, the catechumenate, catechists, preaching, and mass attendance. Reference is also made to building plans, steps to improve proficiency in languages, transport considerations and the running of local schools.
(On the right) Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958) and altar servers outside Maramba Mission Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. The original caption reads ‘First mission chapel outside the centre of Livingstone, at Police Camp Maramba, opened on the Feast of Christ the King, 1932. A better church opened in Marmaba in 1940’.
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. with locals at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with locals at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
Letter from Bishop Francis Costantin Mazzieri OFM Conv., Ndola, Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Rhodesia, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking an assistant for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., education secretary for the Vicariates of Northern Rhodesia.
Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. with a group of Capuchin friars at St. Theresa’s Church in Livingstone. The group includes Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.
Report by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. sent to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. Reference is made to the difficulties encountered by the first missionaries (including Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980) and Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.); the establishment of the Loanja mission; negotiations with government authorities and tribal leaders; the work of other missionary orders including the White Fathers and the Jesuits. Fr. Declan concludes ‘as regards the mission outlook in general in Barotseland, I must candidly state it is going to be a very tough problem. The whole territory is fearfully primitive and undeveloped. The only transport help of a convenient or modern touch that we have as an ally is a spasmodic lumber train which carries us from Livingstone to the Barotse border’.
