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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.

Children from St. Raphael’s School, adjacent to the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of children probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.

A view of the exterior of St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. Consecrated in April 1851, it is the oldest Catholic cathedral in the country. The photograph probably shows a religious ceremony celebrating the centenary of the cathedral's foundation.

An image of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. with a crew member on board the ‘Irish Plane’, an Irish merchant ship, docked at Cape Town in South Africa.