Report on the Livingstone Mission (Zambia) compiled by Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. for the Irish Capuchin Provincial Chapter. Fr. Theophilus referred to the consecration in February 1975 of Monsignor Adrian Mung’andu (c.1920-2007) as the first locally-born African Bishop of the Diocese of Livingstone. The installation was a landmark as the Diocese ‘ceased to be entrusted to the Capuchin Order’. He also noted that ‘about 90% of the priests working in the Livingstone Diocese are Capuchins’. The report is divided into the following general sections: (1) Apostolate (a) Drink (b) Wrong marriages (2) Education – primary and post primary schools (3) Medical (4) Social work and development (5) Life of the friars (6) Vocations and Formation (7) Katima Mulilo Mission, Caprivi Strip (8) Still room and need for missionaries in Zambia Appendix A: Brief report on development by Fr. Martin O’Connell OFM Cap. Development (a) Pastoral Appendix B: Extracts from report on 5th annual meeting of South-East African Capuchin Association (SEACA), held at Kasita-Mahenge, Tanzania, 9-11 June 1976. Compiled by Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap. Appendix C: Annual statistics for the Diocese of Livingstone Appendix D: Personnel list
Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in Zambia compiled by Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Regular Superior, for the Provincial Chapter. The report is arranged into the following sections:
A spirit of openness
Office in common
Decreasing numbers of missionaries
Provincial Visitation
Preparation for the Chapter
The First Mission Chapter
Withdrawal from some stations
The House of Formation
Pastoral Council
The death of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
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.
A print of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. The verso is endorsed: ‘Group of schoolchildren at Saw mills school. … This is not [a] full crowd about half [are] missing in this group. After a while one gets accustomed to their strange faces. The little fellow second from right, front row, must have been playing rugby’.
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.
Hendrik Verwoerd (later Prime Minister of South Africa) with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. during his visit to the mission station at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Strip, South West Africa (Namibia).