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A group photograph of Capuchin friars in Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘A “Caps” get-together in the Cape / Dec. 11, 1984’.

Copy print of the Most Rev. John Evangelist McBride OFM (1903-1991), Bishop of Kokstad, South Africa. The print is on the reverse of a memorial card which notes that he was professed on 17 Sept. 1925; Ordained Priest on 3 July 1927; Ordained Bishop on 25 July 1949. He served as Bishop of Kokstad until 1978.

Cardinal Owen McCann, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, with Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. and Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap. in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa.

Souvenir booklet published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Capuchin presence in Parow parish, and the building of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Cape Province, South Africa. The publication includes an introduction by Fr. Noel Winston OFM Cap. with and notes and photographs re the history of the Irish Capuchins in Parow.

This subseries includes a very large collection of photographic albums and prints that capture Irish Capuchin missionary activity in Zambia from the commencement of work in what was then Northern Rhodesia in 1931. The photographs can be used to reconstruct missionaries’ actions, trace the evolution of their work and their interactions with local inhabitants, and assess their impact as agents of western contact with African society. The photographic archive also offers an insight into indigenous political, social, and economic history in the areas where the Capuchin missionaries were active.