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Notebook containing a record of the baptisms at the Loanja mission, Bartoseland, Northern Rhodesia. The record (which includes entries of adult baptisms and references to 'articulo mortis' or 'at the moment of death') was compiled by Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980). The entries are listed under local (birth) name, tribe, village, Christian name, date of baptism, minister officiating, date, and in some instances date of death and place of burial. The end pages of the volume also contain miscellaneous notes re baptisms at the mission. With manuscript annotations (in Irish) by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. re Fr. Seraphin.

A religious procession at the Christ the King mission at Maramba, Northern Rhodesia.

Photographic print of a postcard from Kenneth Kaunda (later President of Zambia) to Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea. The postcard was written during Kaunda’s visit to Rome and asks for ‘divine guidance … [during] our present crisis’.

A car crossing the Zambezi River on the pontoon ferry at Chinyingi.

A truck on a pontoon at the Watopa ferry crossing in Northern Rhodesia.

The exterior of Our Lady of the Angels Church, Livingstone, Zambia.

The ordination of Br. David Wahuna OFM Cap. at Mongu, Zambia. The print shows Monsignor Adrian Mung’andu, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.

Transcript of Fr. Ronan Herlihy’s oral account of his missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). The file was compiled as part of Dr. Charles Flynn’s resources for the study of mission history at Maynooth University. This project was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Irish Capuchin Archives holds a digital copy of this file.

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.