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Fr. Agnellus O’Neill OFM Cap. in Lukulu, Zambia.

A local football team at Sichili in Northern Rhodesia. The football in the print is inscribed with the date ‘1960’. Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. are with the group.

Photographic print of Fr. D. Wakuna in Lusaka, Zambia. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘First Diocesan Priest in the Livingstone Diocese’.

A postcard print of a girl celebrating her first communion. Annotated on reverse: ‘Miss Josephine Philomena Mariam Pillai of the Good Shepherd Convent, Kotahena, on the day of her first holy communion. The Good Shepherd Nuns are in charge of several Catholic convents on the island and do immense good to Ceylonese Catholic children’.

Report of the First Chapter of the Capuchins in Zambia held in St. Dominic’s Major Seminary, Lusaka. The table of contents is as follows:
Introduction
Chapter Personnel
Opening address by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister
Election Results
Report of outgoing Regular Superior
Some significant events of the past six years
Capuchin life on the mission
Vocations and formation
Ongoing formation
Relations between the Order and the Diocese
Other Chapter decisions
Closing address by Provincial Minister
Appendix I: Elections in detail
Appendix II: Addresses and contact details for friars at various missions in Zambia
The report also contains a photographic print of the friars in attendance at the Chapter.

Index compiled by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. of Irish Capuchin mission articles and photographs (mainly relating to Africa) published in 'The Father Mathew Record' in the 1930s and 1940s.

Copy cutting from 'Getaway' of an article by Patrick Wagner exploring the attractions of Western Zambia. The cutting includes a reference to the Chinyingi Suspension Bridge built by the Capuchin friars.