Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at a religious retreat in Mongu, Zambia. The group includes religious sisters and (on the right) Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
A collection of prints of Irish Capuchins in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated by Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. (1931-2016). The file includes: • Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Patrick Mayengo ‘with the Litunga, Ilute Yeta’ at the Ngonye Falls (or Sioma Falls) on the Zambezi River in Western Zambia. June 1981. • Fr. Philip Baxter OFM Cap. near the bridge crossing to Zimbabwe. • Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. with Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. • Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap. with Fr. George O’Connor OFM Cap. and the Most. Rev. Donal R. Lamont, O. Carm., Bishop of Umtali, Zimbabwe. • Exterior view of Mangango Church (built by Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap.). • Group photograph of Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap., Fr. Donat OFM Cap. (a Swiss friar), Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. and others at St. Bonaventure’s, Lusaka. • Fr. Patrick Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. • Br. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap., Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. • Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. on the rope bridge built by the American Capuchins over the Zambezi River. • Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. at Lukulu. • Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. (1931-2016) working as a welder with Sr. M. Matthew. It is noted that Sr. Matthew is from the Falls Road, Belfast. • Br. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap. with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. • A Capuchin friar and a religious sister waiting alongside an aircraft in Zambia. Note: The file includes a cover letter to Fr. Richard Hendrick OFM Cap. (26 Jan. 2010).
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.
Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., (right), Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (seated), Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (second from left), and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (first on left) in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The annotation on the reverse notes that the original image was taken from an album belonging to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. On the reverse was written: ‘I think this is not a bad piece of architecture for a school master’s son’.
Print cuttings showing Capuchin friars who are working as missionaries in Africa. Includes prints of Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Ultan Weldon OFM Cap., and Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap. (1901-1998). These friars travelled to Northern Rhodesia in 1946. With a print of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap.
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.
