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An aerial view over the Chinyingi Suspension Bridge on the Zambezi River.

The exterior of the newly-built Church of Christ the King at Maramba.

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.

Final construction on the church at Munkunkiki in Northern Rhodesia.

Copy report by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on the mission of Livingstone-Barotseland in the Prefecture of Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia. The report is divided into the following sections:
I. Situation, area, population etc.
II. Historical Survey
I. Prior to the coming of the Capuchin Fathers
II. Coming of the Capuchin Fathers
Livingstone
Loanja
Loanja Out-Schools
Momba
Mulobezi
III. Applications for New Stations
Translations of Catechisms
IV. Details and Statistics
Babemba Church and School, Livingstone
Church of the Little Flower, Livingstone
Barotse Church and School, Livingstone
Loanja
Momba
Mulobezi
V. Sphere of Influence of each Station
Loanja
Kabompo
Lumbi
VI. Method of Converting the Locals
Results Secured
VII. Working of Schools
Babemba school, police camp, Livingstone
Zambesi Saw-Mills Compound School, Livingstone
School at Loanja Mission
School at Saw-Mills Compound, Mulobezi
VIII. Difficulties Hampering Work
Influence of Protestant Missionaries
Poverty of Districts
Transport
IX. Prospects for the Future
X. Tribes
XI. Languages
XII. Financial Outlay of Mission from Beginning
A manuscript note by Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. reads: ‘This amount does not include monies spent in building church and schools in Athlone parish and church in Parow parish, South Africa, amounting to over £7,000’.

The exterior of Dambwa Church, Livingstone, Zambia.

Group photograph of a meeting of Capuchin bursars of the East African Capuchin Conference (EACC) in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. The group includes Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap.

Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap., Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap., and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. at evening prayer in Sioma Friary, Zambia.

The first church at St. Francis Mission, Malengwa, in Mongu, Zambia. An annotation on the reverse notes that the church was built in 1948.

The first mission station at Loanja, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘cleared and built in virgin bush. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in the foreground / Our habit this was'.