- IE CA AMI/1/10/2/9
- Bestanddeel
- c.1950
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Two local children in Cape Town, South Africa. Manuscript annotations on the reverse read ‘Little Mother / Cape Town’ and ‘Two little friends – Cape Town’.
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Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Two local children in Cape Town, South Africa. Manuscript annotations on the reverse read ‘Little Mother / Cape Town’ and ‘Two little friends – Cape Town’.
Professions at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Professions at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone Parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The file includes caption information for some of the photographs compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Includes images of Fr. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap., Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. and two novices from Holy Trinity Parish, Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip.
Copy Report on the Mission of Livingstone-Barotseland
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Copy report by Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on the mission of Livingstone-Barotseland in the Prefecture of Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia. The report is divided into the following sections:
I. Situation, area, population etc.
II. Historical Survey
I. Prior to the coming of the Capuchin Fathers
II. Coming of the Capuchin Fathers
Livingstone
Loanja
Loanja Out-Schools
Momba
Mulobezi
III. Applications for New Stations
Translations of Catechisms
IV. Details and Statistics
Babemba Church and School, Livingstone
Church of the Little Flower, Livingstone
Barotse Church and School, Livingstone
Loanja
Momba
Mulobezi
V. Sphere of Influence of each Station
Loanja
Kabompo
Lumbi
VI. Method of Converting the Locals
Results Secured
VII. Working of Schools
Babemba school, police camp, Livingstone
Zambesi Saw-Mills Compound School, Livingstone
School at Loanja Mission
School at Saw-Mills Compound, Mulobezi
VIII. Difficulties Hampering Work
Influence of Protestant Missionaries
Poverty of Districts
Transport
IX. Prospects for the Future
X. Tribes
XI. Languages
XII. Financial Outlay of Mission from Beginning
A manuscript note by Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. reads: ‘This amount does not include monies spent in building church and schools in Athlone parish and church in Parow parish, South Africa, amounting to over £7,000’.
Flynn, Killian, 1905-1972, Capuchin priest
Report on the Livingstone Mission
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Report on the Livingstone Mission by Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. (1928-2006) for the Irish Capuchin Provincial Chapter. The report is divided into the following sections:
Murphy, Theophilus, 1928-2006, Capuchin priest
Irish Capuchin Missionary Statistics
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Statistics compiled by the Regular Superior regarding the Irish Capuchin missions in South Africa and Northern Rhodesia. The statistical forms were compiled for the Capuchin General Curia. The forms include information in respect of the numbers of friars ministering at mission stations, the local populace (both European and indigenous), the numbers of Catholics and non-Catholics, the numbers of mission schools, hospitals and orphanages founded, and the numbers of baptisms and communions. The file includes a list of Irish Capuchins resident at mission stations in both Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa in June 1947 and in June 1952.
Directory of the Diocese of Livingstone
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Directory of the Diocese of Livingstone (Most Rev. Adrian Mung’andu, Bishop) noting the number of parishes, priests, missionaries, and communicants.
Letters from Fr. Callistus Lopinot OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letters from Fr. Callistus Lopinot OFM Cap. (1876-1966), a Capuchin friar from Geispolsheim, Germany, Capuchin General Curia, Vice-Secretary of the Missions, to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Regular Superior for the Irish mission in Northern Rhodesia.
Letters of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Draft and copy letters of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. relating to the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. The file includes copy letters to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., General Definitor, and Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap., and a letter from Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. On 21 May 1948, Fr. James wrote ‘We feel that there is great future for the Irish Province in South Africa where the Irish Capuchins were the first, and still stand alone, in their mission to pure natives in the Langa Compound’.
O’Mahony, James, 1897-1962, Capuchin priest
Bibele ye Kenile: a Silozi edition of the Bible
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A Lozi edition of the Bible published by the Bible Society of Zambia and copyrighted to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mongu.
African Mission Album of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A small album containing photographic negative sheets compiled by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988) mostly relating to the work of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Africa. An annotation on the inside cover reads: ‘Fr. Alfred O’Mahony / Sancta Maria / Mongu / Northern Rhodesia’. The album has a manuscript index to the contents. The album includes images of baptisms, school groups, religious sisters in Lukulu, Sichili, Livingstone and Sawmils in Northern Rhodesia, and in Langa, Athlone and Parow in Cape Town, South Africa. Images of Victoria Falls (1942) and the Zambezi River are also extant in the file. There are also prints of groups of friars in Rochestown College, County Cork (1931-2), and in Knock, County Mayo (1940).