A collection of black and white and colour photographic prints associated with the work of religious sisters mainly in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Most of the prints are not captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'The Father Mathew Record'. The captioned photographs include: • Sisters in a garden with African children, Basutoland (later Lesotho). • A sister and an African worker draining a marshy area. • ‘The sisters wear white habits when nursing’. (The Father Mathew Record). • Nurses’ accommodation – ‘Sister and nurses sitting on a Basutoland blanket with students’. (Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, South Africa). • Two religious sisters and a crippled man at St. Francis Hospital, Aliwal, South Africa. • Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at Mangango leprosarium. • African Sisters’ Convent at Kalabo, Northern Rhodesia. • Two first-year African students at Kaoma Secondary School. • ‘A petrified Sr. Lelia going to visit one of Sr. Elizabeth’s gardens – her first trip in a canoe’. • ‘Sister Josephine FMDM, the sister in charge of leprosarium in Mangango. She comes from Leitrim’.
Photographic prints of religious sisters at the Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. The images show the sisters providing food and medical care to local villagers.
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.
Prospectus for the Capuchin formation and studies house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The institute was open to Capuchin friars, Comboni fathers, Consolala fathers and Lazarist fathers.
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’.
This subseries includes a very large collection of photographic albums and prints that capture Irish Capuchin missionary activity in Zambia from the commencement of work in what was then Northern Rhodesia in 1931. The photographs can be used to reconstruct missionaries’ actions, trace the evolution of their work and their interactions with local inhabitants, and assess their impact as agents of western contact with African society. The photographic archive also offers an insight into indigenous political, social, and economic history in the areas where the Capuchin missionaries were active.
