President Kenneth Kaunda greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at the opening of the mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM. The hospital was built by Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.
President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM and Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
Newsletter distributed by the Office of the Zambia Society in London containing a summary of major news stories taken from various national newspapers.
Flier promoting the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland. The flier notes that ‘no Catholic mission had ever been established [there] until the Irish Capuchin Fathers accepted the sacred trust from the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith in 1931’.
Cutting from 'The Southern Cross' reporting on the opening of the new Church of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. With a photographic print of the Church. The report notes that the Church, built by the Irish Capuchins, ‘is the only Catholic Church now on the 600 mile stretch of railway between Bulawayo and Broken Hill’. Reference is made Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Superior of the Mission, Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.
Cutting of an article in the 'Evening Herald' referring to a call from Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls, on the need for more missionary priests and religious sisters in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. Some biographical details for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. are also provided.