- IE CA AMI/2/10/3/11
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- c.1932
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. with the Loanja mission car at the rear of St. Theresa’s Friary in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
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Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. with the Loanja mission car at the rear of St. Theresa’s Friary in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister., and Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., General Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland and Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia; the Silozi catechism; the Loanja station; requests for financial assistance and loans for the Northern Rhodesian mission; missionary activities in Cape Town, South Africa; the recognition of five parishes in the Cape as coming under Irish Capuchin jurisdiction (1946); the Katima Mulilo mission station in the Caprivi Strip (1949); Fr. Phelim’s appointment as Regular Superior of the Victoria Falls Mission; the completion of the church at Langa (1949); the deaths of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. and Fr. Donatus Aherne OFM Cap. (1949); Educational matters in the missionary territories; the appointment of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Education Secretary General (1949); the need for more missionary sisters (Holy Faith Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, the Irish Sisters of Charity and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa); the opening of the church at the Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo. (Mar. 1954); the building of a new convent and girls’ boarding school at Maramba. (July 1953); his proposal to resign as Bishop of Livingstone ‘in line with the gradual Zambianization of the Hierarchy’. (10 Aug. 1969). Reference is also made to the activities of the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap. The file also includes a manuscript copy of an ‘Approved Prayer for the Conversion of Africa’ and a typescript copy of a ‘Spiritual portrait of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.’ by Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. (Livingstone, 1992). 19 pp.
O’Shea, Timothy Phelim, 1902-1979, Capuchin priest
Irish Capuchins leave for new field
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Cutting from the Irish Press reporting on the departure of Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. for Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. and other Capuchin Friars
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Studio photographic print of (left to right) Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. in Ireland before their departure for the African mission.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980) in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. with Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (left), probably onboard a ship during their first voyage to Africa in late 1931.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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’.
Anglin, Terence, 1900-1947, Capuchin priest
Capuchin Friars on Victoria Falls Bridge
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
(From left) Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale on Victoria Falls Bridge in Northern Rhodesia.
Capuchin Friars on the banks of the Zambezi River
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Two Irish Capuchin missionaries (Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the right, and possibly Fr. Serpahin Nesdale OFM Cap.) on the banks of the Zambezi River, Northern Rhodesia.