Reports on parishes administered by the Irish Capuchins in Cape Province, South Africa. The reports were submitted by the Irish Provincial Minster to the Capuchin General Curia. They contain information in respect of Langa, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia, Bridgetown, and Parow. Information is given under the following headings: • Year of foundation • Personnel • Apostolates attached to parish • Non-Parochial Apostolates (missions, retreats, diocesan functions) • Population (numbers of Catholics, numbers of prospective converts and numbers of marriages) • Care of other institutions • Other religious working in parishes
Statistical information compiled by the Regular Superior in respect of the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa. These were seemingly official returns compiled for archival retention. Includes information in respect of personnel, and revenue derived from subsidies from the Capuchin General Curia, the Irish Province, and other sources. Information is also given for expenditure.
Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983). The album contains un-captioned black and white prints relating to Fr. Jarlath’s time as a missionary in South Africa. The album includes some views of local worship including communion groups and photographs of religious sisters (probably in South Africa). With prints of Athlone Catholic Hall in Cape Town, South Africa, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (1911-1968), and the grave stone of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. (d. 2 Oct. 1949).
Views of Parow parish, Flats District, Cape Town, South Africa. The prints are annotated on the reverse: ‘This is Parow in the Cape Flats. We could build a church and convent in the foreground. … The orphanage is in the distance’. ‘Parow / the ground in front is Vicariate-owned. Building on left is church. The other buildings are the orphanage’. ‘Three of the coloured orphans at the little Oratory, Parow’. ‘Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats. Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.
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 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.
A collection of prints including many of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Bishop of Livingstone from 1959-74). Most of the prints are un-captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The captioned photographs include: • Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1931. The images were probably taken during a trip to Victoria Falls. • Group of Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia. Front row (from left to right): Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. Back row: Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The photograph was probably taken after the installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic on 25 Nov. 1936. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. at a Parish Council meeting at the new church, Shimano, Mangango Mission. c.1970. • Bishop O’Shea with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. in 1967. • Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. • Bishop O’Shea at a retreat in Mongu in Aug. 1974. The group includes religious sisters and Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the Little Sisters of St. Francis. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with Sr. Colmcille and three new novices. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda.
Photographic pints assembled by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) during missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (1931-3) and later in India. Only a small number of the prints are annotated: Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Building work on the Capuchin house and church in Livingstone. The first mission station at Loanja ‘cleared and built in virgin bush. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in the foreground’. ‘Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken’. ‘Building of school at Loanja’. ‘Fr. Peyton at Sichili’. Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. with local men. Fr. Declan with local converts and communicants. Religious sisters with local children. Fr. Declan standing outside the Livingstone Capuchin house. The exteriors and interiors of Capuchin churches in Northern Rhodesia. Postcard prints of wild game in Northern Rhodesia. India: ‘Paharganj Bazaar / Italian Capuchins in India, Old Delhi’.
A collection of prints of local Christians mainly associated with the missionary work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Most of the prints are not captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'The Father Mathew Record'. The captioned photographs include: • ‘Peter: a cook boy – on right in picture, a Catholic. Kinabini – our kitchen boy [and] on left, a catechumen. These are the 2 boys who came with us from Mankoya to help us to start our mission here’. • Holy Cross mission, Mekading, Basutoland (later Lesotho). • ‘Local smoking women’ probably in Basutoland. • Church-goers at Quachas Nek, Basutoland. • ‘Our Well’ showing local children beside a primitive water well. • Portrait photograph showing ‘an African Witchdoctor’. • ‘Mother teaching children to balance baskets on their heads’. • ‘Paddling by Canoe to their village during the rainy season’. • ‘Making bricks at the Sancta Maria Mission in Lukulu’. • A local woman preparing an evening meal. • Leprosy victims and disabled children. • ‘A leper patient in Mangango, blind and crippled known as the “Joker”’. • Pounding maize.
