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An image of the exterior of the Holy Cross Sisters' convent at Kalabo in Zambia. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘African Sisters' Covent at Kalabo'.

An image of dignitaries visiting the Holy Cross Mission School in Mongu, Zambia. An annotation on the reverse gives the date as 1970.

Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. with Paramount Chief Yeta III, Litunga (or king) of the Lozi people in Barotseland.

Fr. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. (kneeling, left), Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (standing, left), Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (standing, right) and Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (kneeling, right) in Northern Rhodesia in about 1932.

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'.

Capuchin friars receiving their missionary crosses in the Church Street Friary, Dublin, before their departure for the African mission in 1943. The friars are (back, from left to right), Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap., Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap., and (front, from left to right), Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap.

Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. (right), and religious sisters (Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood) in Sesheke, Zambia.

An image of a traditional canoe on the Zambezi River, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Killian Flynn receiving an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to African education at a ceremony in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, in 1958.

An image of Bishop Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. in Zambia.