Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. with locals at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with locals at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
Report by Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap. (1929-2018), Regular Superior, on the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Didacus notes that ‘thirteen priests and two brothers are responsible for the twenty thousand Catholics in the Cape Town Archdiocese’. The report is divided into the following sections: • Apostolate • Vocations • Finance • Present debts of the Parish • Life of the friars • Needs
A list of Irish Capuchin friars who worked as missionaries in Africa from January 1929 to c.1985. The list was compiled for research purposes by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. The information is listed under name, year of arrival, details of posting (whether to Northern Rhodesia/Zambia or to South Africa) and remarks. Information is also supplied in respect of whether the friar in question is deceased. The list notes that Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. travelled to Cape Town in January 1929 on a tour of inspection of potential mission territories.
Letter from Fr. Basil Cryan OFM Cap. (1898-1968), Capuchin Foreign Missions, Church Street, Dublin, to Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, re arrangements for the payment of monies into the mission account.
A funding proposal from the Damietta Initiative, Capuchin Franciscan Peace Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, for a project promoting non-violence ‘based on the Franciscan charism of “fraternity and minority”’.
Offprint of an article by Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. on the history of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa titled ‘The Irish Capuchins in Cape Town and Zambia / from virgin mission territory to diocese’. The article was printed in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975). Ink stamped on first page: ‘Vocations’ Office, Capuchin College, Rochestown, County Cork’.
