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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.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap. relating to missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Some of the prints have been annotated:
African religious sisters. The prints are titled ‘Malawian Mass’ and ‘Magnificat Dance’.
Fr. Brian with religious sisters.
Aerial view of Santa Maria Mission at Lukulu.
Fr. Brian and Fr. Elzear Barry OFM Cap. in Mufulira, Zambia, in Jan. 1959.
Storm damage caused to the roof of the friars’ residence in Senanga on 8 Dec. 1978.
The grave of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at Lukulu.
Group of friars assembled for the visitation by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister in 1979.

Photographic prints of religious sisters at the Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. The images show the sisters providing food and medical care to local villagers.

Prints showing Capuchin friars (both Irish-born and local brothers) and various churches in Zambia. Many of the prints have been annotated on the reverse:
The perpetual profession of Br. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. in Livingstone, 3 Oct. 1999.
Br. Charles Chishimba OFM Cap. with Fr. Silvester Flynn OFM Cap. in Assisi House, Lusaka, 10 Dec. 1999.
Retreat group at Assisi House, Lusaka on 10 Dec. 1999. The group includes Fr. Silvester Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Damien Loughrey OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap.
Altar servers in Malengwa in 2000.
Building work on the extension to St. Conrad’s Friary, Lusaka in 2000. The extension was completed in May 2001.
Friars at a retreat given by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. in St. Kizito, Monze, Zambia, in 2001.
Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. with Fr. Godfrey Sinvula OFM Cap. at a silver jubilee celebration in Mongu in Apr. 2003.
Friars at a retreat in St. Kizito, Monze, Zambia in April 2005.
Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. at Mangango in 2005.
Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. at a Corpus Christi Procession in Chinyingi in 2004.
Sunset over the Zambezi River in Chinyingi in 2004.
Bridge in the mist over Zambezi at Chinyingi in 2004. This footbridge was built by Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap.
Building a new church at Makanga village, Chinyingi, in 2004.
Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. and Sr. Immaculata ‘stuck in the mud just after the Sitaka turn-off heading towards Chinyingi during the rainy season in 2004’.
The church at Chinyingi.
A canoe crossing the Zambezi River at Senanga.
Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly at Kaoma.
The Capuchin Friary in Mahenge, Tanzania.
Br. Ephrem Onyanga OFM Cap. (Kenya), Br. Dominic Chanda OFM Cap. (Zambia), Br. Francis Chilufya OFM Cap. (Zambia) and Br. Deogratias Mwageni OFM Cap. (Tanzania).
Br. Michael and Br. Mishek at St. Bonaventure’s College, Lusaka, in Zambia, in 2006.
Br. Lawrence Katongo OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., and Br. Dominic Sanou OFM Cap. at Morogoro, Tanzania, on 29 Oct. 2005.
Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. and Br. Raphael Mwito OFM Cap. at Mangango.
Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap. at the site of the proposed St. Joseph’s Home in Livingstone.
Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Rodgers OFM Cap. and Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. in Lusaka on 25 Aug. 2002.
Fr. Daniel and Br. John (a newly-professed Zambian friar) at Mangango mission in April 2001.
Br. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. (ordained a priest in 2001).
Friars of the Zambian Vice-Province with Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. in Lusaka.
Fr. Beatus Kinyaiya OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Tanzanian Capuchin Province.
Zambian Vice-Province Retreat Group at St. Kizito, Monze, Apr. 2002. The group includes Br. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap.
Fr. James Connolly with Angolan refugee children in the Catholic church at Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement in the Kaoma district, Zambia, in Apr. 2001.

Photostat copy of a diary compiled by Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. covering his experiences as a missionary in Northern Rhodesia. Periodic references are made to the extreme distances travelled between the missions and villages (‘returned by canoe down river’), and to accounts of masses said in the bush. Locations are frequently given in longitude and latitude measurements. It is noted that Fr. Timothy left Africa for Ireland on 24 June 1938 (p. 57).

A copy of 'Zambia Capuchin News' (Vol. 2, Nos. 1-6), a publication edited by Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Malengwa. The principal sections are: Professions at Kasita; a meeting of Capuchin Formators of East Africa; a course for Capuchin Formators; Br. Malachy Breslin OFM Cap.; the visit of the Mission Secretary; the Capuchin Heritage Programme.

Cuttings from the 'Irish Catholic' of reports by Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. on the work of the late Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Sioma Mission, founded in 1953, and at the Senanga Mission, located on the banks of the Zambezi River.

Letters of Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958). The correspondents include: Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Vicar. Most of the correspondence relates to the establishment of missions in South Africa and later in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The subjects include: Fr. Casimir’s first impressions of Cape Province (23 Oct. 1929); the journey to Barotseland (30 May 1930); requesting permission to retain Parow parish (26 Feb. 1931); discussions with Monsignor Bruno Wolnik SJ (1882-1960) to establish a local mission a few miles from Livingstone (16 June 1931); the necessity of wearing a white habit. Fr. Casimir wrote: ‘It is almost impossible to wear brown during the hot weather. The Conventual Fathers at Ndola wear white. The Jesuits wear any old things. I suggest a light cream-coloured habit’ (27 Nov. 1931); the need to speak the language in Barotseland ‘before we can hope to gain the hearts of the natives’. (30 Nov. 1931); on the study of the Lozi language (26 Jan. 1932); suggesting that a foundation be established in Barotseland ‘to which Catholics can look to with pride – a large church and school, sufficient for a fifty-mile area’. (3 May 1932); affirming that ‘mission work in Barotseland is going to be a slow business, the obstacles look insurmountable’. Fr. Casimir added: ‘it is a great consolation to know that it can never become a white man’s country’ (23 May 1932); confirming that the new church at Livingstone will cost £3,500 (6 Sept. 1932); referring to the work of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and his father (30 Oct. 1932); arrangements for the impending visitation by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. (3 Dec. 1934); the activities of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. (18 Dec. 1934); Fr. Casimir’s arrangements to travel to Ireland via Marseilles on-board the Italian ship, SS 'Giulio Cesare' (5 May 1938). References are also made to the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. The file includes a letter from Fr. C. C. Martindale SJ to Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. offering to collect £100 for Fr. Casimir’s missionary work in Barotseland (16 June 1931).