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An image of a woman kissing the Blarney Stone. Blarney Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house located in County Cork. According to legend, kissing the stone (which is built into the battlements of the castle) bestows upon the person the gift of eloquence, flattery, and persuasiveness. Though earlier fortifications were built on the site, the current castle structure was constructed in 1446 by the MacCarthys of Muskerry, a branch of the Kings of Desmond.

An image of Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. with parishioners in Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of the Catholic church built by Fr. James Kelly (1858-1933), a Waterford-born priest, in the Cape Flats area near Cape Town, South Africa.

A view of Table Mountain as seen from the bell tower of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of a group on an excursion (possibly a parish outing) in the countryside around Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. with a group of students at St. Louis Mission School in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.

Cutting from a Kilkenny newspaper referring to a report in 'The Father Mathew Record' on an inspection tour by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. for the proposed Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. See also CA AMI/1/3/1.

Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.

The interior of the church at Sioma. The original caption reads: ‘First Church’.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Br. Roch Robito OFM Cap. and the Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.